INQUEST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11715, 24 April 1900, Page 7

INQUEST.

An inquest touching the death of the late Edmund Borlase was held yesterday afternoon before the Coroner (Mr C. C. Graham) and a jury, of v-hom Mr E. Godfred was chosen foreEtfiv

.Walter Borlase, father of deceased, said he last saw him alive on Sunday forenoon. Tlie yptipg man was subject to epileptic fits, which came on him withput smy warning. Deceased had been subject to these fits for the last 10 years.

+i l^'f BoW sa!<l l>e was called upon on tlie 22nd inst. to examine the body of tlie deceased. 'He found the body stretched at full length on the beach, with the face'downwards ■tie .uniecl it over,, and found life extinct. There -ivas some froth at the mouth, with some abrasions on the forehead and a cut on the right temple. Witness considered deceased had an epileptic fit, and had fallen face down into tli" water. He had been dead some hours when ■witness saw him. "

, Charles Arthur Pearce, a labourer, residinH bawycrs Bay deposed that on Sunday afternoon, wh ile walking out with his wife and family, he observed something in the wa er cei-^ bTV Ch- F mt 'lown *»S "und the depend. Qrow him out of the water, and at' police Chalmers and informed -the

foun thn y 4' ?l > arric de P°»ea «»* ho "Wid-the deceased lying face downwards en the beach at Sawyers' Bay. There was no appearance of violence about the body, and deceased had evidently died in a fit: The t> had quite gone. amiSIST f°nn r had been accifc™A. d™ WnCd WhllC ™*«»S-fr™ *n epi-