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THIS DAY IN HISTORY (TDIH)
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LOCATION:
Marylebone, London, UK
WHAT HAPPENED:
The THIRD
Wright
household incidents relating to Spontaneous Human Combustion
(SHC)
occurred today
Mrs. Wright's, along with Elizabeth Barnes, were sitting about eight feet from the hearth where a small fire was going when her clothes suddenly flamed up again.
Was it just a coincidence that the girl, Elizabeth Barnes, was present at both incidents where Mrs. Wright's clothes flamed up or was she somehow responsible? Regardless of whether it was a coincidence or not, this is probably what started Mr. Wright thinking that the girl might be responsible somehow, but the clincher (at least as far as Mr. Wright was concerned) were all the incidents that happened the next day, and what happened afterwards.
Continued on
JAN-13-1820 [THU].
Continued from
JAN-05-1820 [WED], and
JAN-07-1820 [FRI].
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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