INQUESTS.

Otago Police Gazette, Volume I, Issue 10, 11 May 1863, Page 44

INQUESTS.

An Inquest was held on the 29th April, 1863, at Queenstown, Lake Wakatipu, on the body of Joseph Curie Croucher, who was accidentally drowned at Queenstown on the 13th April, 1863. Verdict—Accidentally drowned.

An inquest was held on the 29th April, 1863, at Mr. Thompson’s Station, Dunstan. on the body of William Washington Finn, which was found on the river Lauder on April 26, 1863. ; Verdict Died from exposure to cold and temporary insanity caused by drink.

An inquest was held on the 7th May, 1863, at the Commercial Hotel, Waikouaiti, on' the body of William Whitson, who was killed by the falling of a quantity of earth from an embankment upon him while working in a cutting below on the Hawkesbury Township on the ; 6th . May, " 1863. VAccidental death.

An inquest was held on the 25th April, 1863, at the Criterion Hotel, Manuherikia, cn the body of Samuel Farrell, who was drowned at the Manuherikia on the night of the 23rd April, 1863. Verdict — Found drowned.

An inquest was held at the. Criterion Hotel, Manuherikia on the 30th April, 1863, on the bodyof; Edward Goodbourne, who died at Butcher’s -. Gully .on the 28th April, 1863. Verdict Died from disease of the heart.

:.V An inquest was held on the 4th April, 1863, at !; Port Chalmers, on the body of Charles Brown, who was drowned by the capsizing of a boat near the Quarantine Island on the 3rd April, . 1863. Verdict Accidentally drowned.

An inquest was held on the 9th May, 1863, at the Shepherd’s. Arms Hotel, West Taieri Road, on the body of George Cross, who died at Kia Kia Creek, West Taieri, at midnight of the 7th May, 1863. Verdict from apoplexy caused by congestion of the brain.

Intelligence has been received at this office ol the accidental drowning of a man named John Baker, a German, by the capsizing of a boat on the Wakatipu Lake on the 4th May, 1863. This man had a wife residing in Hobart Town known to Mr. Dowling, landlord of the Britannia Public House, Macquarie-' street.