THE INQUEST.
An inquest on the body of Bon Smith was held to-day at the Empire Hotel, before Dr. Todd, coroner, and a jury.
The evidence of the driver and stoker of the engine; Chalmers, Sergeant O'Malley, and Cracknoll, who last saw the deceased before his going on the bridge, was taken. The only fresh facts obtained were that Smith suddenly appeared from among the girders of the bridge, and apparently unconsciously fell on the sleepers about thirty yards in front of the engine. The driver immediately shut off steam, applied the brakes, and blew the whistle, but deceased did not stir.
Tho jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a rider that no blame was attached to the railway officials, and that footbridges ought to have been erected long since by the Government. The deceased was buried at 2 o'clock today, a large number attending the funeral. —(By telegraph, own correspondent).
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3637, 9 March 1883, Page 2
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153THE INQUEST. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3637, 9 March 1883, Page 2
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