INQUESTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 16 August 1909, Page 2

INQUESTS.

Cliristehureh, Saturday Night. " At tl>? adjourned inquest on Jdhil I'.dwnrd itobinson, held at the morguo to-day, the coroner, after hMriife the evidence of D. A. A. Bickerton, Governmeiit Analyst, ])r. Symes, ami other witnesses, returned a verdict that death was caused through alcoholic poisoning. I'lie Coroner held an inquest at Spring; held yesterday concerning the death of William Uushtun, a farmer, who wan louml dead in a paddock yesterday alter noon. fh ( , evidence showed that Hushton was hoeing turnips when he was gored by a calf, tlit> horn of tile animal opening the femoral vein near Oie fnigh, death resulting f mill | os9 0 { Wood, \ verdict <if accidental death was returned.

An inline*; whs held to-day toucWng ll>;' dentli of Thomas Franklin.Main, the ealimmi who met "nis death from,lnjuries nieued by being thrown - troju his vehicle through a collision with an ambulance van yesterday. . William Metcalfe, who was driving the nmlmla-icc "t the time of the accident, said that when nearlng the show grounds some. < ne wiiceling (l blevele stepped off the footpath, «nd he had to. pull hit homo "l>. Immediately he pulled his reins he felt a bump, and, looking Kntnd, saw that Main's. cab hid collided with the waggon, striking the front wheel. W«« ( ni'ss was on his left side and close to «ie aide channel. Main should hive passed witness easily. ,

Die Coroner returned ». verdict' that death was caused from shock, through Main failing off his cab.