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[GREAT HAYWOOD]

Fatal Accident to a Child. - A verdict of accidental death was returned at an inquest held by Mr. S. W. Morgan at the Staffordshire General Infirmary, on Thursday, relative to the death of Charles Herbert Smith, the four-year-old son of Charles Smith, milk retailer, of Little Tixall. The evidence showed that on Saturday morning deceased was seen to run across the Stone Road at Great Haywood and fall in front of a motor-car. After medical treatment at home the child was removed to the Infirmary, where an operation was performed in the hope of saving its life, but death ensued from hemorrhage, caused by a fracture of the skull. Evidence was given that the car, which was driven by Joseph Ronald Deacon, of Lichfield, was proceeding at a moderate pace and on its proper side, and that the driver, who sounded the horn, had no chance of avoiding the accident. - The jury expressed the opinion that no blame whatever attached to the driver of the car.