16th September 1878
Men are killed by an exploding threshing machine
A pair of French workers, Auguste Le Goubey and Lacques Le Luan, were killed when the boiler of William Lane’s steam-powered thrashing machine exploded. An inquest was convened, which ruled that the deaths were the result of culpable negligence – a charge to which Lane should answer. He was arrested, imprisoned and, eventually, released on £50 bail.
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Other events that occured in September
Writer Philippe Langlois is born
- Philippe Langlois was a qualified doctor and a medical officer in the Royal Jersey Militia, as well as an author and poet.
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Men are killed by an exploding threshing machine
- Two French workers were killed in Jersey when the boiler of William Lane’s steam-powered thrashing machine exploded.
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Soldier is killed picking flowers from a train
- A soldier was killed on the Jersey Railway when he attempted to pick line-side flowers from a moving train.
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Sportsman and soldier Robert Copland-Crawford is born
- Born in Elizabeth Castle in 1852, Robert Erskine Wade Copland-Crawford was destined to be notable for several reasons, not all of them good.
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