THE WAIKOUAITI FATALITY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2571, 24 June 1903, Page 45

THE WAIKOUAITI FATALITY.

An inquest on the body of William Egan T who WAi run over by the torn on Monday oveniing, was hold in tho Cour*hou3e, Waikouaiti, yesterday afternoon, before Mr B. Davis, J.P. (acting-coroner). Deceased (writea our correspondent) was a fisherman, living at the mouth of the Waikouaiti River, and ho wm a native of Antwerp, ' Belgium. From the evidence it transpired that Egara Jiad come tin from Kariban-e in the morning, and had been hawking fisb ~ about t«ho townakin during the cla-y. In tho afternoon ho had mot a felk>w countryman, of his, nnd thoy had adjourned to a hotel, where they " c hoifted" for oach other. As docTised wont do'vn tlw road to catch the train ho wa« noticed to stagger ?nd fall, and ho wa-s re-fused a ticket to Morton by tho ptatiorLmaater l">e<?aurio he was not sober Hp tried bo obtain more liquor at tho hotel "by tho station, but was at orn>e rofnwd, and ho must, unnoticed, have then walked ak>J>3 tho railway lino on his way homo, and fallen in a stupid condition alongside (he rail e . The driver of the 4- trsin from DnnecKn, nrriving horo ."'t 652 p.m., noticed soirtethirg lying parallel with the rails as his eisfine pad>*-d by, and thought it was a dog-, but on looking o\er the right sido of tho ongino upon arrival at Waikouaiti be noticed rnmiiiKln <~ f ' clothe* and blood, and, conc'.udiivg someone had been run over, gavo the alarm ait onci-. On going back the body tiari found :n a dreadful state, the log^ bo.ng '•fvored from tha trunk, and the l>>wels protruding, bit^ of the torn portions lying 1 t»ro --vnc! thor» for a diat*noe of tome 70 y.ird-., r.long which the body liad been rarriftl The rr-m>ina w*re oajrifid to a (\Wli3e hj ti!>e railway station, where they w«r« idenlificHl Aftsr hearing th<> ovidenca of (n»vpm' person* who n«d seen% deceased, <!t:rinj the Kttor part of the day., and of tho driver of tho train »nd other railway officials, tho jury gave a verdict that Egan mot Lh dr-ath while under Uie influence c£ liquor l>v the train pa£«ing over him, and that no Llana-e is attached to anyone.

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