ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

Dunstan Times, Issue 576, 2 May 1873, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE

— o — LATE INQUEST AT BLACK’S. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUN.ST AN TIMES. ) Sir, —If you thiuk tlie following deserving of any consideration, I shall feel obliged by your inserting it in the columns of your journal. At the late inquest on the body t f the man P. Leary, who was found dead, suspended to the back of a dray, the verdict of the jury was that “ the deceased hanged himself in a lit of temporary insanity.” Since the inquest was hold, the body has been examined by a medical man, at the request of the friends of the deceased ; and he gives his decided opinion that the de ceased did not commit suicide. It appears that no,medical man was called on to give evidence as to the cause of death at the inquest, which appears tome to have boon a great oversight on the part of those, whoso duty it was to have supplied the same, and which, in a case of this description, is the Only evidence of any value in guiding the jury to arrive at a proper conclusion, and notwithstanding the absence of this mostnecessary evidence, the jury return the above verdict. The reason for troubling you with the above is to express my surprise, that there was ue medical man summoned, and that it may call forth an explanation from those who are able to give it. i am, &c, „ RESIDENT. Black’s, April 29, 1873.