FATALITY AT CARTERTON

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 8

FATALITY AT CARTERTON

INQUEST RESUMED,

(BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCUTIOX.)

J, . CARTERTON, This Day FrSfc "T^ "°ardin S th° death'of *iank H. Eushton was resumed at Greytown yesterday. The evidence showed that a party of ten men took ten gallons of beer, a bottle of whisky, and bottled beer to a place outside Grevtown, and returned at 3.30 on Sunday m °«»ng- Deceased mounted his horse and left his companions. It is surmised no became sick or fell asleep on the horse and fell on to tbo road striking his head and fracturing his skull at the base. Ihe medical evidence was to the effect that there had been no hope for the man, whatever had been done, from the tn-st. Considering deceased was drunk his employer, J. Meikle, with assistance put the man to bed, left him for some hours, and then could not rouse him for breakfast. Meikle then sent for a doctor, who pronounced the man to be unconscious and ordered his removal to the hospital, where he died a few hours later.

A verdict was returned that death was caused through deceased accidentally bte^of^skull 0"6 and fr3CtUrinS *»