On Monday, before Wm. Davies, Esq, County Coroner,and the same jury, an inquest was held touching the death of Samuel Oldham, who was a visitor staying with his parents at 15 East Parade,Rhyl.

Miss Sarah Brindley said she lived at Waterloo Rd, Burslem, but was now staying at 15 East Parade, Rhyl. The body that the jury had viewed was that of her nephew Samuel Oldham, Son of Wm. oldham of 216 Waterloo Rd, Burslem.

Deceased was 8yrs of age. He was staying with her at 15 East Parade. Mrs Oldham(who was her sister) and her children came to Rhyl about a fortnight ago, but had left on saturday week, and she went to take charge of the children instead of her the following Monday. She left

deceased and other boy in the sitting room about 11 o'clock on Sunday, and went with a little girl to the bedroom to put her things on to go out.

While putting the little girl's things on the servant girl came into the room and said "your little boy has fallen through the window". She went out of the bedroom and made her way to the sitting room, thinking it was that window. She met the little boy Jack on the landing, and she said,"Jack, Where is Sam," and he said he was on the water closet. She(Witness)said he was not. She then went back to the bedroom and took the little boy and left him in the bedroom with the little girl. She afterwards went downstairs, and someone told her that the deceased had fallen through the back window. She did not see him, and only knew that he had fallen through being told. Her feelings were too much for her to go and see the child after she heard he was injured.

By the Coroner: The Sitting Room she occupied, the bedroom, and closet were on a level. When she went back to the bedroom she asked the little boy, Jack, where he had left his brother Sam, and he said on

the water closet, She said, "Are you quite sure?".

He said "Yes, as when he went to the closet to deceased he pushed the door back and told him to go out, and he went".

The closet window was on the level with the closet seat, and she thought the deceased might have stood on the seat and slipped out through the window.

John Oldham, Brother of deceased (who was not sworn) said his aunt left himself and the deceased in the sitting room about 11 o'clock on Sunday. After their Aunt left the room he went to the closet, and the deceased followed him and stood on the closet seat. He(Witness) told him to come down, and he did. Deceased then told him to go out , and he went. When he left the room deceased was sitting on the seat, and the lid to the closet being up. He never the deceased after he left him in the closet.

By a Juror: Could not say whether the window was closed or shut.

Hugh Dryhurst Whyne said about 11 0'clock on Sunday, whilst he was drawing water from the fountain, he heard a splash on the floor, and went to see what was the matter and saw the deceased lying on the floor. He ran to tell his mistress, who told him to go for a doctor, and he went to fetch Dr.Girdlestone.

Elizabeth Minshull, said she was a widow, residing at 15 East Parade, where she lets apartments. Mrs Oldham and her children came to take apartments at her place. They had been there a fortnight. Mrs Oldham left about a week ago , and left the children behind her. Miss Brindley came to take charge of the children in her stead. About 11 o'clock on sunday she heard a throbbing noise as if somebody was falling. The sound came from the yard and the boy Whyne came in and said that the boy had fallen from the top of the house and she ran out immediately and picked him up and carried him into the house. She screamed out and said "For Heaven's Sake go and fetch a doctor". She sent the boy, two servants, and Miss Brinley and the Dr Lloyd came.

The Coroner: Where are the rooms that Mrs Oldham occupied?

The floor above the drawing room. There was a w.c. adjoining the those rooms. She did not think deceased came through the w.c. window because Dr Lloyd and herself looked up from the yard and saw that the window was closed. She believed deceased must have fallen through the window of the housemaid's closet, which was the only window she could find open. When Dr Lloyd and herself went upstairs they found the w.c. window open then. The top sash of the window of the housemaid's closet was open as well. She had not been upstairs after the deceased fell through the window previous to the arrival of Dr Lloyd.

The Foreman: Was there anything in the housemaid's room that would assist the deceased in reaching the window as easy as in the w.c?

There was only a sink stone and a common slop pail. The boy was dead when she picked him up, he gave a slight quiver. The closet was open to occupants of the two sitting rooms on that floor, both of which were occupied.

Dr Albert Eyton Lloyd deposed to being summoned to the deceased soon after 11 o'clock on Sunday. He found the body lying on the kitchen floor, there was no life in it. The skull was very considerably fractured. There were so many loose pieces, there was no injury to any part of the body other than the head.

He had the corpse carried into an adjancent room, and examined the place where the body had been picked up which gave ample of evidence, by the presence of large quantities of blood, of its being the place where the accident happened. Being told that the deceased had fallen from a window, he looked up at the windows in sight, the only ones open were the bedroom window, which was slightly opened, about 3 inches, and the whole of the upper sash of a window said to belong to the housemaid's closet. The Dr having explained how the closet window could not be seen from the yard, said he went upstairs and examined the housemaid's closet. The approach to, nor the condition of the window, satisfied him that that was the window out of which the body had fallen. He went to the water closet adjoining, and there found the lower sash window wide open, and very accessible and felt himself satisfied that that was the window which had been used.

The w.c was a ordinary one, have a polished baywood seat, with a window on the left hand side of it, and at such a height from the seat, as to be available for of the size of the deceased to open and look out through: but too high for him to see into the yard without getting on to the window. The bottom of the window would be about 15 or 18 inches from the seat. The width of it would be about 18 inches. It would not be impossible for the boy sitting on the seat to slip out. A boy the size of the deceased would not beable to see into the yard without getting on the seat, as he would be unable to look over the thickness of the wall.

The Coroner summing up said the probability was that the boy had fall through the w.c. window and he thought the jury could come to no other conclusion than that of accidental death.

The Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death".