JUROR'S DEATH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 287, 5 December 1933, Page 6

JUROR'S DEATH

i UNUSUAL POSITION. COMPLICATION AT INQUEST An inquest which was to have been held recently at Newcastle, New South Wales, on a man who collapsed and ' died in a colliery on November 3. had to be adjourned to November 2.1 by the : Kum Kurri district coroner as a result of the death of Thomas Robson, one . of the coroner’s jury empanelled for the inquest. ; It was understood that the Department of Justice would be asked to advise what procedure should be adopted in the case. Coroner’s juries, rarely seen in other parts of New South Wales, are empanelled fairly frequently for in quests on mining fatalities on the coal fields, by virtue of legislative provision that they may be demanded by the in dustrial organisation to which the victim of any such fatality belonged. They consist of six jurors, each of whom the inquest is being held, after his deal h. The view held al Kurri Kurri was that if another juror had to be empanelled to complete the jury in this ’ case, he would need Io view the body, exhumation, of which would coasequently become necessary.