CORONER'S INQUEST.

Dunstan Times, Issue 306, 6 March 1868, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

All iniuest Was hell on Satnrday 1 ih\ Hie L'l-li ult, before H. W, Robinson, Eec>., former, at Grange Farm, on the bcdyVf E l.mi i Wellington Jones, who was found d-ad on the morning of the previous dav. Mr. Robert Fuday was elected foreman of the Jury, After the jury had viwed the body the following evidence was taken : Gjorge Whittles, sworn, said : 1 am a farm laborer, and was managing Grunge Farm for Ihc deceased. I have been in Lis service for about eighteen months. About I half-past 5 on the mon.ing of the 2Slh 1 got up, and on going outside the lions.: saw deceased walking at out the yaitl. I pon my iu.jniring if he was better lie said "Yes,"' 1 thin left to fetch in the horses. In about an hour and a half I renuncd with them and went to the stables. While there a man named Joseph lloberts came and told me that .Mr. J ,ues was dead, behind the-liay-stack. I immediately went to the spot ami suv cceased sitting in a wheel-barrow, leaning against the stack of hay. I put m.y ar a un.'-r his dead, ail raised it up, desiring R iberts to proceed at once for the doctor and give i lformation to the olice, T.io bo ly was warm, but life was extinct. Grange Farm was not the usual residedee of th ! deceased, hi has only been living on the farm since the '22 nd February, since which time he has been complaining of a pain under the left breast. By the (' roiier : I cannot tell the reason why deceased came to live on the farm At no time was he confined to his bed. He was constantly walking about. I believe on onoor more occasions he walked to the township of Alexandra, a distance of a mile aid a half; but on his return he was quite knocke-l up. I believe eeeascd to be about sixty-eight y ars of age. •lane Whittles, sworn, said : I am a married woman, and wife of the previous ni'ss, and reside on Grange Farm. Alflßt 6 o'clock in the morning, upon going into tin room where deceased slept, I saw him in be '. He said he was a little better, and that the pain bad left his side, but that ho was weak. Seeing that he was preparing to get cut of bed, I told him to lie still until I had prepared breakfast for him. He said no, he would get up and take the morning air. 1 left, the room while ho drersed. I next saw the deceased sitting in the barrow dead, my husband hoi ing up . Lis head. By the Cororar—l was told he was dead by Roberts befo e ho went away to give information. [This witness was much affected while giving her evidence.] John Lord, M.D., sworn, said: lama i qualified medical practitioner, retid*

ing at Alexandra. On the morning of the ■23 th I was called to see deceased at Grange Farm. Deceased was sitting in a barrow, leaning against a stack, and ' was quite dead. This morning I made a post mortem examination. I found the heart full of fat, the result of such fatty degeneration had been to cause congestion of the lungs, there, by the stoppage of breath. I did not make any further examination being convinced that congestion of the lu"gs, caused by a fatty degeneration of the heart to be the cause of death :By the Foreman :—From conversations, I have had with the deceased during the past three months, I was aware of the nature of his disease, he having com. plained of shortness of breath. Joseph Roberts, sworn, said, —I am a miner, and reside at Poverty Beach arid knew ■the deceased ; at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 23th, I was at Grange Farm, I spoke to the previous witness, George Whittles at the stables, and upon going round the hayjfock. I saw deceased sitting in a barrow, no reply to the morning salutation I went to him and found him dead ; I ini. mediately told Whittles and his wife that the old man was dead, and proceeded at once to Alexandra, and gave information. The Jury, without deliberation returned a verdict, —That the deceased died from congestion of ltings, caused fey a fatty degene■ration of the heart.