INQUEST.

Wanganui Herald, Volume X, Issue 2765, 27 April 1876, Page 2

IN QUEST.

A coroner's inquest was,heldyqste,rday_! afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Bed Lion Hotel, touching the, death of, Mr James Richardson,' licensed- -victualler of Wanfachu. „;..! # 1 The following jurors were sworn in .7-1 0. Tester, George Moir, Daniel Kitchen, John- Watts, John Jauies, OscarHarvoy, Angus Dallas, M. .Gordon, 1 David JBoss?,,, Michael Leahy, TVm. Blair, George iT. Bo worn. Mr Dallas was elected foreman. The, jury having viewed, the body, the following evidence was taken': — ; William Richardson, son of the deceased, 'deposed— My father, a'pd 1 .-wore proceeding home last eyeniue; with! a horse and cart, tlie cart' was l'oadb'dSvith tvvo barrels of aleanclbth'ei"'ai ; ticles l^or the hotel ; my father was sitting on li box in 'tho oart driving, 'while' I j wiis^walkiti^; in front of the horse about ,eight ( . yards j we were proceeding up the hill to ward's Cameron's flat ;, tho horso , had been jibbing at intervals all the way' up'.. the hilL; niy attention was first, dra'^n" to the accident, by hearing the noise produced by tho lun'se' and cart •rolling down the hill : it was just getting dark, and I could see the horso and cart, which; rpjled ovjer several times ; I could not see; my,faf;h;ev while the cart was rolling over'; I went down the hill, after tho, c ( ar;t-;,I saw m)' 1 father lying "under both horso and shaft; the horse was' lying on'tho'feliaft'j'fath^a' was , groaning,, -but , ,dicl; \ n,ot : ; j I" tried to get the horse up, but failed ; I' then ran aloiig tlie-roacl shouting f for help s' J'couicV'notiinakc anybodyhear mo until -I got to !Blair|s, 'a;. t considerablo ;-, - I [di,d,-^bt not go to Cameron's becauso 1 saw no' lights, and did not know the way j. Mr Blair and t;wo others started o'if to ' tho sceno of accident, and I did not roturp ; I have' seen the deceased lying here, who is my father; the cart went over ia'fc: one' of the steepest places on the road ; fatbjer was lying 1 'between ithe-hoifeos' front and hind feet ; he was lying in such a pokition /that 1 the horses front .feet 1 o/ould strike him ; we left .town at four o'clock ;, my father walked across tho bridge, but rode tho rest. of the way. . . .H.,.0.' Ear^aiHriljf.iqii'alifiodJAaejli^l practitioner, deposed— -1 have made- a superficial' examination^ of. the r body of ' the deceased ; I found many bruises and marks of violc-nco on his head, n'ebk, and body ; there was- a, -large . Quantity of blood'fiowiugfromono ear ;' thatwitli other signs leads' me to,boli eve. .that he had a fracture on, the baso of bis.jslfcull ;"i all those marks of violence might bo causp4 by the accident stated ;by the la'stywituess; these injuries were quite sufficient to account for death ; I do not think he would be- sensible after, receiving the uii;>/. a m ii al«>i h l/ 1 . loj v;\

j'.ii'RS ; val-'j oifoa gmiii wlien in«cn«!iblc' JDund&njJlttii', a settlor on the Fo. 1' Lin-e, dci»f.soil--.My place h about two lilacs bcvoikl ~Sh' (Jameron's : from infari>i;itio;i rcdoived on Tuesday cvenipg, aUouCa quarter (o 7, ! proceeded to the hiH-b(}lev\' Cameron's Mat, accompanied by "two men ; when E came to tho sceno of tho accident I found one of the shafts of the cart lying on the legs of the de,coasod.,&nd]iis l'aco-jvaa on the. ground : his head was lyiu-^ between tho Core and JK)fd"l(j6tqffth.<fhcr?jo'; ono k of the horse's letfs was below Lhc shaft ; the horso was kept down by "the cart; the liorse was lyhfg'Wits sitleiwillrits"fddH'Up th'e hill ; wl 1 ti'icd tq.frpej.^h.o. l.iorse but could not ; iv the course/ "di:' ab'dufc' 20 'minutes wo !! i s;i-wod6drcl>ia'"oxfcric&ting body/:' ho I w;is,clea-d,ihen \, }ip,was apparently dead when wo .first caiiie there ; we lost no time in proceeding 1 to tli© scene aftor I ■ was informed! of it ; ,1, examined- >tho , -pockets] <©f -the cjeceased ;' I, took Qut a pockptibojok'[producecln]; „,i,j '• -,'■ \ ',- ThQ,jury'ibrou.gh,t ialitiVcrdiofc, of accidental death. .vyL p.V,n-ynoT '/.u'V }i..-ii ,-».n.,i.r; .\ „.i ,:i.u w