INQUEST.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4456, 6 December 1871, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquiry was instituted yesterday to ascertain as to the manner in which Joita Parsonage came by his death/ In' our Monday a isaue we mentioned the circumstance that a man was found lying in Cox's Creek, a little above the flow of the stream, in a very exhausted state, and that he had been conveyed to the Hospital, where the medical authorities gave' very little hope of , the sufferer surviving. / The belief expressed was only too well founded, for in less than ten hours after having been received into the ward he gradually became more and more exhausted until the final collapse. The evidence brought forward yesterday was that of John Ridley, who deposed to finding the deceased lying in a mud-hole in Cox's Creek. Notice was given by him at once to the police. — Constable Bullen stated that he had been searching for the deceased through ! out the Waitemata district, but he was unable to find him. It was probable that lie had concealed himself in the' scrub. — Dr." Philson deposed to having made the postmortem examination. Death was caused by effusion of the brain. The skull had frown down so as to press with fatal results on the upper portion of the brain. — Mr. Philip' Mill identified the deceased as a passenger^ by the 'Alice Cameron,' from Sydney. He ! was noticed by all on board as having the appearance of being mentally deranged. — Dr. Goldsbro'; the Coroner, having briefly, summed up, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. — The deceased is not known to have any friends in the colony, and it is probable that he was shipped away from Sydney to become chargeable to any other colony he might succeed in reaching— a custom. very common in the Australian colonies.