AN INQUEST HELOD UP
An inquest held at Cornsay, a Durham mining village, was the first inquiry into a fatal accident for sixteen years. This is what happened:—Testaments could not be found with which to swear witnesses or jurymen. An official thought he could find one in a cupboard, but he found the cupboard locked, and he had left the keys at home. The foreman, a big, heavy man, recollected that he had a Bible at home, and offered to get it. He ran all tha way and returned in ten minutes, breathless —with the Bible. Then the swearing-in had to wait while the foreman recovered his breath. The inquest was on a miner killed on his forty-sixth birthday.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 24, 30 January 1939, Page 17
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119AN INQUEST HEL0D UP Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 24, 30 January 1939, Page 17
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