A ROYAL OFFICER
THE KING’S CORONER. An important official of the British Court has been brought to the public notice by the exclusion of the “King’s Coroner” from the provisions of the Coroners Bill, presented to the House of Commons by the Home Secretary. Mr. A. W. Mills, a solicitor, at present holds the post. He has been ‘‘.King’s Coroner” for 37 years, and has had to hold only two inquests. One was in 1903, when a postillion was run over and killed near the trade entrance to Buckingham Palace. The other, in 1911, was on a policeman who died suddenly in Kensington Palace. The “King’s Cor oner’’ has jurisdiction over the Royal palaces and the House of Commons, lie sits with a jury of 12 royal servants, a procedure that dates back to the time of .Edward 1.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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139A ROYAL OFFICER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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