A Fatal Accident occurred between Tidford and Landrake on Thursday week. About ten o’clock, Mrs. Betty, innkeeper, found a riderless horse at Landrake and, after going some distance along the road towards Tideford, he found the dead body of a man, black in the face, and with his neck broken. It was discovered to be that of Mr. Thomas Aire Dandridge, a commercial traveller, in the employ of Mr. Littleton of Devonport and formerly a traveller for Messrs. Pinsent and Co., of the same town. Mr. Dandridge was returning from St. German’s fair, when, it is supposed, his horse either bolted or shied and threw him …
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