Description:A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in a watercress stream on the Warren Farm, Holly Lane, Perry Barr.
Mrs Richards had left home at 10.15 am to visit her daughter at Hill Top.
She was found dead in the stream by a baliff named Wells on the following morning. She seems to have drowned in about 3 inches of water. Despite several people reporting having seen her in the district climbing out of ditches there appears to have been no evidence of "foul play" and a verdict of "found dead" was returned.