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LOCATION:
Marylebone, London, UK
WHAT HAPPENED:
The SECOND
Wright
household incident relating to Spontaneous Human Combustion
(SHC)
occurred today.
Mrs. Wright, sitting near the family hearth, had just gotten up to walk away when she noticed her clothes were on fire. Sitting next to her was Elizabeth Barnes, a 10 year old servant who would later be accused of starting all these fires, "by some extraordinary means," at least according to John Wright anyway, but obviously at this time, it was assumed that Mrs had sat too close to the fire, and this is what caused her clothes to flame up.
Continued on
JAN-12-1820 [WED], and
JAN-13-1820 [THU].
Continued from
JAN-05-1820 [WED].
RESEARCH NOTES:
We found three sources for all of these incidents. Two of them agree
with who Mrs. Wright is (Mr. Wright's mother)[1] [2], while the third[3]
disagreed (Mrs. Wright was Mr. Wrights wife). The source that
disagreed was,
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena.
We chose to go with the majority and define Mrs. Wright as Mr.
Wright's mother, rather than his wife. We also chose to include more
information than less which is why we also included the following,
even though not all three of our sources mention them.
The other interesting aspect of these accounts is that we never learn what Barnes is charged with in court, nor the final outcome of the case, and we also never learn whether Mrs. Wright dies because of the last incident, or not. It was alluded to by each source, but because the magistrate ruled that he would not pronounce sentence until Mrs. Wright recovered and was able to testify. This begs the question, why would the magistrate do that if Mrs. Wright was not expected to recover? All three of our sources leave us hanging there, but the incidents are still interesting, in and of themselves.
Also, only our second source[2], Mysteries of the Unexplained, mentions that Mrs. Wright is actually hospitalized.
Our next step is to find the original source from which Charles Fort got his information, the Annual Register (1820-13). If that source doesn't pan out, our third source[3] writes it up as Annual Register (1830-13) and that's where our research will turn to next if we don't find it in the 1820-13 issue.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
[1] Page 83 from
Mysteries of the Unexplained, Reader's Digest
[2] Pages 927-928 from
Complete Books Of Charles Fort, The
[3] Page 153 from
The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena
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