Need newspaper lookup for Joseph Fletcher, travelling umbrella salesman for Rylands. He died, possibly of blood poisoning, age 50 on 27 July in Newport, Monmouthshire. How and why??? Looks like there is a story here. Do the papers tell of an injury earlier in the month? Did he go there to sell umbrellas, or is this connected to the Fletcher who is on death roll from the great port disaster earlier in the month? Joseph was really a resident of Stockport in Cheshire. Earlier in life, he was the family's emissary when another Fletcher met with tragedy on Isle of Man. So perhaps he went there to seek the missing Fletcher or to settle matters for the family.
