CORONER'S INQUEST.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5278, 11 January 1879, Page 3

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest was" he}d yesterday at the, , Taradale Hotel, before . Dr, Hitchingß, ' Coroner, on the body of Jamesj.pronnen, j ■who was killed. onr.Thursday last at Papakura.> f Mr ... Alexander .Macdonald" was foreman of the jury. Richard .Whelan, laborer; deposed : I was in Mr Parsons' paddock yesterday afternooii ! wbrking. ; I saw deceased catch--1 -ing ahorse in an M adjoining paddock. I , af t«rw^r'dil sa^r hith mount the horse 1 bare•'b'acked: 'Hej^ad. ho bridle,;, but .only a tether rope which 1 he put ypundhis neck,; I waß ,70. 9?. ;80 yards from' Him. The' ; ]biQrse immediately bolted, .and the man ' fell off at once on his back. He got up.; the horse H\till running, on v The man kepi hold- m l the' rope, Which' W made fast :A round his wrM } The' Jiorse rah too'fast for deceased, ,'jSQi thftt he was dragged again on the ground quite close by the., j ; Kbrse'b heels. /Jndieard him sing out. h\ ■ tjieji saw the hMBe kick deceased. He >w^still being^^^ged along. I ran t6, 3um^ and witn^fi^wSV/>thefß .stopped the ~:horse, Q^^exanpning deceake.dl found '•:him all cufc&bouj; thg^eai and bleeding from'-thel wounds a^from the mouth. ; He was quite insensible. After lifting : . him up we gavd'him^water, which, how- • ■■ r ;£veT,>h.e was. unable to-,swallow. .He lived about ten minute3.<V We found the rope made fast to his wrist. . , ;•, : ! John Parsons, , sheepfarmer, deposed : About 4.30 p.m. yesterday, I sent deceased, who was in my employ as a weekly servant; to fetch up a horse from a paddock close to the house. Ten minutes after I saw the horse galloping in the paddock, dragging deceased by the wrist with a tether rope. Deceased was on the* ground; I went ' immediately to release him, and with the assistance of Whelan and two other men caught the horse and cut the rope. Deceased waß on the ground quite senseless. I heard him give one or two slight moans. I then washed his face with water, and saw contusions about the face. The eyes •:-: ' quite shut. Blood was oozing from, the wounds and' from the mouth. He % lived about a quarter of an hour. I have, no doubt that deceased died from injuries received from the horse. He was 19 years of age. He had been with me a. '•'■ fortnight. He came out by the City of Auckland. The mare was quiet. My daughters ride her. I never knew her to „ kick. She must have got frightened ax the deceased jumping on her back. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was accidentally killed.