INQUESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11348, 17 April 1900, Page 4

INQUESTS.

ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. , An inquest was held yesterday at Gleeson's Hotel, Hobson-street,"into the circumstances surrounding. the death of the lad Francis: Sheeran, whose body was found at the tira-: her booms, Mechanics' ' Bay, on Sunday morning. Dr. McArthur, coroner, pre-, sided, and Sergeant Gordon represented the ( police. Mr. Michael Sheeran, bootmaker,; residing in Grey-street, identified the body, as that of his son, Francis Sheeran, aged 12 years. Witness said the lad did not return J home on Saturday night, and this being altogether unusual, he reported the fact that' he was missing to the police. William. Cammick. a lad of 12, deposed to finding the body, and reporting the fact to Constable Harvey. He identified the body as that of the boy Sheeran. Constable Harvey deposed to recovering the body from between two logs at Wynyard Pier; the feet "era jammed slightly between the logs, and th«, water was only 2ft deep at the spot. Tht jury returned a' verdict of "Accidentally drowned."

• DEATH OF AN AUSTRIAN. ' [BY TELEGRAPH.—I'KESS ASSOCIATION.] Oasiahu, Monday. • An inquest was commenced to-day into the circumstances attending the death of an Austrian named Peter Cartridge, who was found dead on the road at Kakanui,; with a wound over the eye. Evidence showed that there had been an altercation; between deceased and seven young men, and stone-throwing had taken place. Shortly after Cartridge was found on the road dead, or dying, and the police were communicated with. Deceased was 65 years of age, ana was a bachelor. It is not known who threw the stone that killed Cartridge, but one of the witnesses said it was one of two of the young men he had named. A® police have made no arrests yet, ....

KILLED BY A TRAIN. Christchurch, Monday. , At the'inquest on Joseph Watson, who was killed on the Lyttclton train on Saturday evening, the evidence showed that the deceased tried to get on the train when « was just starting. He apparently BUS" took the space between two carriages for the platform, and fell between them. He hung on to the guard iron, and two. passengers held him up for some distance, when he slipped through his coat, and fell under the wheels. There was no means of communication with the driver or the guard of the train, and none of the railway ot.. ficials appeared' to have seen the man ol* the station platform. A verdict of accidental death was returned. : The fors™ said the jury would not add any rider. I&0J; felt they amid r.ot blame the railway officials, and yet they could not altogether : exonerate tip- , ;-■ ';f ' l i~.