INQUEST AT WALLACETOWN.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 3

INQUEST AT WALLACETOWN.

Grieve (Eoreman),W ohn Plex. H^ e^iS; ockburn, .for M'Donald, ( * B J IeB . B "SoJ,. SU Baird. and Charles Ajmstron /Accommodation House" jf H as aT e seen the deo^^ cn l 8t 7 iMtlllie rian who came here o d . nnerandafeed -tit one o clock . , he « rf liquqr . his horse ;he aPPjJJ 1 M at din ner if he [^ohnGr S^^a ag]ass0 f gin ; ild have* dm*, his H ;bout l»«i fa f.; a and came back mounted • it to the stables andean c , pstler was *x* thua, c to j, 0S ;? er he g then canted off; i» a quarter self; h T e then .° " f the door dismounted, n ho ur It Mujhim attb ? * rfd ling a horse of W } (Mr M . Don . itt m y house a i the nae. j, went out to the horse . h e said lfc he was dOl, ° h ™: tl iey appeared to •Mr 3 T t .°SuSoJcX then* mounted ie about it 'fl' . t to id the deceased horseandrode a^y , I O o itVaS Sein isted that it wns, and that yon ; msistea i house m not been away ' o dth^ DSt ler came up .and tokU iorse was ted to the «j - Ser'heia his stirrup, and he mounted -'^nithP following morning, when I saw im IhP table door; I ordered it to ir^the^il this was about half--7 am on the and Instant; upon ex•■"J * Z qiiddle with the ostler, 1 found it S^SSe, and the horse .ashed JfJ Mp-ui with the .exception of a patch SXn^?HP.*« I «« B t h f nllth ? t r Sw of having come out of one of the bf. I then reported the matter to Serr ß thf Coroner: When I first saw the 5. next morning, I did not suspect any- . f jjj c j t °iy : I consider when he first left iiouse, he was in a fit state to take care r 'the Coroner: To my knowledge, he only two glasses of gin at my house on Ist inst. „ . __, r the Jury: Mr M'Donald was in the c On Sunday, the Gth instant, as'ed was brought back in a cait, and nto the stable, where he is now lying, ihn Scanlon, ostler at the AccommodaHouse. Wallacetown, being sworn, corirated the main features of the preceding less's evidence; he further said, that lascd did not appear the worse of liquor lis' speech; he staggered a little in walkand appeared stupitied ; did not notice n deceased first came to the house, if he heen drinking. clih Grieve, junior, being sworn said : I , > seen the body in the stable, and identify i that of a man I saw on Tuesday afteri, the lst instant; on that day, about halfone o clock, he appeared to have had a j. of liquor; when he came into the -.mmodation House, Wallacetown, he d-rae to have a glass with him, which I ; I had only one glass with him ; I do not llect seeing any one drinking with him ; ippeared to have had a .little drank When sked me to have a glass, you could just irk it ; he rode off alone I left the house ie time, and returned again ; in the interhe appeared to have had a good deal » drink.; the first time, Jie told me he going to.Captain M'Callum's. >hn f urnilty/deposed to finding the body > ie deceased in a creek, about fourteen from the hank, in a place that seemed for watering cattle. Fter adducing some lurther and not -very irtant evidence, the jury ueturned the wing verdict:— "That the said Thomas ew, on the first day of September, one sand eight -hundred and sixty -three, was lentiilly drowned by falling off his horse, he Tomaboraki Creek. It so happened accidentally, casually and by misfortune, ie*said Thomas Agnew, was hi the water ie said creek, then and there suffocated , drowned, of which suffocation and r ning he the said Thomas Agnew, then there instantly died ; and so the jurors isaid, do say that the said Thomas ew, in manner and by the means aforeaceidentally, casually, and by misfortune s to liis death, and not otherwise,"