From The Warminster Herald And General Weekly Advertiser For Wilts., Somerset & Dorset, Saturday 5th July 1873:
Crockerton
On Thursday morning last a man named Elijah Adlam was found by Mrs. Hoddinott, in a barn belonging to her husband, where he had been accustomed to sleep for some time past, in an insensible state. Mr. Willcox was sent for, and he pronounced him to be in a dangerous condition, and had him removed to the Warminster Union, where in the evening of the same day he died. He had lately been drinking a great deal, and had taken very little solid food.