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12 Chapter Terrace, Newington
John aged 26, merchant's clerk. Helen (Eleanor) aged 27. Helen aged 4. John aged 1.
Sussex Agricultural Express 31st May 1898
Fatal accident to a lady cyclist - A distressing bicycle accident, and one which has unfortunately had a fatal termination, occurred at West Worthing on Thursday evening. A lady named Mrs Helen Hamley, of St Mabyn, Downview Road, was returning home from a friend's house in St Michael's Road, where she had been taking tea, and when crossing Manor Road she was knocked off her machine by a horse and carriage, driven by Arthur Albert Figg, and belonging to Dr. F. Hinds, of Worthing, the off wheel of the carriage passing over her body. Dr Hinds and a gentleman who was driving with him at once alighted from the vehicle, and, the lady having been placed in the carriage, she was conveyed with all possible speed to her home, where her injuries were attended to. She was also seen later in the evening by her own medical attendant, Mr W.S. Simpson, but, despite all that medical experience could do, her injuries had a fatal termination just before midnight - The inquest was held on Saturday evening, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death" but they added a rider expressing the opinion that the coachman was driving at much too high a speed for such a spot, and this opinion the Coroner afterwards communicated to the witness Figg.