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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Shocking death of another Female Blondin. (search)
spine was in all probability the cause of her death. The deceased was enceinte, and is said to have had some presentiment that the rope was not safe. It had been recently spliced, and gave way at that part. Upon that point it is to be hoped there will be a searching inquiry at the inquest. At the moment of this shocking occurrence and actual spectators of it there were many thousands of persons from Birmingham and the back country, and so little effect did it produce that the jete was continued, terminating with a display of fireworks at midnight; the Foresters' Committee, who had the conduct of the proceedings, having at a meeting after the accident determined "to go on with the programme, omitting the dangerous parts."--The scene of the disaster is that very Ashton Park which Her Majesty deigned to open as a "People's Park" five years ago; it is to be hoped that it has now for the last time been used for such debasing and brutalizing performances as that of Monday evening.