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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XII, Issue 1288, 5 December 1857, Page 3

Inquest. —An inquest was held on Friday evening last, at the Victoria Hotel, before Dr. Monteith, Coroner, upon the body of Mr. Daniel Dougherty, the late pilot. From the evidence of a witness named Liddy, it appears that upon proceeding to his work about five o’clock on Friday’ morning, he observed the deceased lying in the vicinity of the barracks at Mount Cook, and immediately gave information to the Serjeant-Major oi’ Police, who was quickly on the spot, and medical aid was called in, but life was found to be extinct. E. Hopi, a native policeman, deposed to having seen the deceased early that morning leaving Barry’s Hotel; ho was then on horseback and apparently sober; itis believed that the deceased fell from his horse in a fit ; and the position in which the body was found, with other circumstances would lead to that conclusion. The property found upon the deceased was taken charge of by the police. The Jury, after hearing the whole of the evidence, and having taken the opinion of the medical gentleman, returned a verdict of “Died of Apoplexy.”