Report on the inquest into the death of James Buttery
"The Nottingham Review": 27th. April 1849
DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER BODY . - On Monday last, Mr. Coroner Brown held an inquest ( as Mr. Swann's substitute ) at the Manvers' Arms, Ratcliffe, upon the body of James Buttery, of Ruddington, who was missed some time back, late on a Saturday night. - George Blatherwick, game-keeper, of Ratcliffe, said that he was walking on the bank of the river Trent on the morning of the inquest, when he observed the body of a man floating in the water about four yards from the bank, and about three hundred yards below the wharfs at the above village. He procured assistance immediately, and took the body to the Manvers' Arms, The corpse appeared to have been in the water a considerable time. The body was dressed in a pair of cotton cord trowsers (sic) and a velveteen coat. Samuel Attewell, labourer, of Ruddington, said he had seen the body then lying at the Manvers' Arms and knew it to be the body of Buttery, who was aged 22, and a framework-knitter. He had married witness's daughter, and had been missing since the 24th March. He left the Carrington Arms that night a little before twelve o'clock, as witness had been informed, a little intoxicated. A new cap was found on the Wednesday after he was missing a little below Wilford-boat, near the bend in the river; and he had brought a new cap on the Saturday previous at Nottingham. Wm. Barratt, constable of Ratcliffe, added corroborative evidence and a verdict was returned, "Found drowned."
"A MAN FOUND IN THE TRENT AT RADCLIFFE"
"The Nottingham Journal": 27th April 1849
On Monday morning, as Blatherwick, the gamekeeper, was going near the Trent side, he observed something in the water and thinking it a piece of Oil Cloth, or something of the kind, retired into the wood and procured a long pole, ( and with the ferret line he happened to have in his pocket ), succeeded in dragging it to the shore, when it proved to be the body of Samuel Buttery (sic), a Ruddington man, who was drowned near Wilford, a month since last Saturday night.
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