Samuel Baxendale

INQUEST: 6 November, 1846: An inquest found he "came to his death naturally". A fellow worker Joseph Johnson testified that he was threshing wheat with Samuel Baxendale, using a horse-drawn machine driven by Baxendale. The latter would either stand or sit on the machine when driving. Around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he (Johnson) looked through the machine and saw Samuel Baxendale lying on his belly partly under the machine. One of the man's legs was torn to shreds and Joseph Johnson said he saw flesh in the machine's cogs. He said he did not hear Samuel Baxendale call out because the "machine makes a great noise", but the two men would see each other every 10 minutes or so while working. Another worker Joseph Lewis testified about the danger of a driver getting caught in the cogs. He said Samuel Baxendale was inexperienced but had been given the (easier) job of driving because he had a bad leg (https://stors.tas.gov.au/SC195-1-19-1564).

CRIME: He was transported for stealing a game fowl. Samuel Baxendale had two previous convictions (with jail terms) for stealing fowls (https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-32$init=CON33-1-32p47).