" An accident has happened to Mr Samuel Raymond son of Mr Samuel Miles Raymond of Belchamp Hall, Belchamp Walter. Mr Raymond was going shooting and as he was taking his gun out of the gig it went off, the charge lodging in his shoulder. Medical assistance arrived and it was found necessary to amputate but the sufferer died a short time afterwards. He was 39 years of age. It is a remarkable fact that for four or five generations the eldest son has not lived to inherit the estate and the deceased with what is now regarded almost as a presentiment of his early death selected a spot in the churchyard and planted a shrub on the spot to make his future grave. This request has been observed and his remains were not interred in the family vault. "

" Last week a fatal accident took place on the 12th inst to Mr W.S.Raymond the son of Mr Samuel Raymond of Belchamp Hall, Essex.
These particulars are given by the Essex Standard----
On the morning referred to, Samuel Millbank Raymond, accompanied by his eldest son, Mr S.W. Raymond, left home in a phaeton with the intention of driving to a neighbouring wood to shoot rabbits. Mr Raymond's double barrelled gun was placed between his father and himself, it was a valuable fowling piece and had been examined before they started , arrangements had been made to take up another member of the family at the village inn known as the Bells. On turning the phaeton round by some unexplained cause, one barrel exploded, the contents lodged in the left arm of S.W.Raymond and passed close to his father, the powder singed his eyebrows.
The young man immediately sprang from the vechicle and ran into the Bells Inn and excitedly shouted "I am shot" he threw himself with a groan and great agony onto the floor, his father and brother tried to stem the vital stream, a message was sent for medical aid but it was near half an hour before it could be procured, in the meantime his mother was told and with wonderful presence of mind was enabled to do all she could until the arrival of the medical men, Mr Waring and Mr Lynch arrived from Sudbury, a distance of five miles. The poor sufferer pronounced the wound to be mortal and desired a clergyman be sent for , the Rev Coleman, the Curate from Gestingthorpe arrived and administered spiritual consolation. The medical men advised his removal to the Hall where the amputation of the limb was advised, the bones in his arm and surrounding parts were shattered by the shot, chloroform was administered and the limb removed from it's socket. Death shortly after put a period to his suffering. "

" On Monday last, the remains of Mr S.W. Raymond were committed to the grave amidst the largest assemblage of persons ever crowded into the village church. Mr Raymond was 39 years of age, his family is one of the most ancient in Essex.
It is remarkable that for 4 or 5 generations the eldest son has not lived to inherit the estate and the deceased with what is now considered almost a presentiment of early death, sometime since, he planted a shrub to mark his future grave and the remains were not interred in the family vault. "