THE RECENT FATALITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14324, 14 October 1910, Page 6

THE RECENT FATALITY.

! U'lATi I I.U-' KDWAIM) u-NKIUi. V KKI>K 1' OK SL lt LDIv The adjoin ned 311rj11< si i.fnjt luni; tin* <]"ath of Kdw M--1 O'N"iH, who. 1 " body W;j* toUlld Hi th" :• 'l nea.i l>ai\lllM}.i H.-'Kn on Mlll'l:.'. i. I;- i , iviK* held Ml ihe I 'our I house v•'-(('t'i I;[y smivniiij.'; before the District Coroner, iMr V. (i. Day. Sorj7\uit Bowman represented th»» A lexander I )ona h I .Me K eiude, <>ii*^ilicdrivur at tho Smil hlield Works, said Mint ho had known <lcronsr.il for oi;';lil. or iiitw yours. Ill' last- saw him alive on Saturday last at (i p.m. {.ioimj; in the direction of the abattoirs, and carrying a sack <ii some deseriplion under his arm. Deceased .spoke to wiiness savin;:; "Hood ni;.-;hl," and aft or passim; a few remarks about t !to weaLher, lie parsed <»u. On occasions previous io (his decea-cd appeared to hi' always in ;.-ood spirits, though he was a man thai s-eUfom had inurli tu

Constable Mel.ran eavo evident that hi' had made furl her enquiries in regard to deceased's movement-; cm Saturday. Wiinosx found <nil ihaf he had a u:;nlcine; account in the National Hank, and had drawn no money onl since September Mrd. when he a sum to nay as a dennsil in a eonlra/ t he was lenderm.": for. Ili> ha<l not iuund anyone who had seen <leccascd alive after (i p.m. on S a inrdav, hui he was led to believe thai deceased was a headstrong man. and railier ecccnlri«-.

Mis Worship said ibat {ho evidence was sufficient to justify him in bringing in a verdet of "suicide while temporary insane."