A SAD END.

Evening Star, Issue 3483, 22 April 1874, Page 3

A SAD END.

Aa inquest was held at Tokomairiro on Friday last, before Mr J. L, Gillies, acting coroner, on the body ef Henry Rogers, who was found dead in a gully between Glenore and Canada Bush, on Friday last. According to the ‘Bruce Herald’ the following evidence was adduced : Abel Kerr, settler at Table Hill. I knew the deceased, Henry Rogers, for about two mouths. I saw him last alive on Wednesday evening, about seven o’clock, on the road leading to Canada Bush, - I spoke to him, and had a few words of general conversation. He was walking and I was riding, but as it

was rather a rough night, I rode on. Where I met him would be abeut half a mile this side of the but in Mr Forsyth’s paddock. He seemed to be quite sober. 1 know where the body was found. It was about a quarter of a mile nearer his home than where £ mot him. It was very dark. The night after that came on very wet and rough. There was snow on the ranges next morning. It was cold enough to cause death, if he had lain down and gone to sleep. He was alone when I left him.

' James M‘Guigaa, settler, Table Hil), I found the body of deceased on Friday morning about three miles from here, towards Canada, about two chains off the road in a little gully. I went to Mr Kerr and told

him. Mr Kerr and I went to where the body was lying, and waited till fae police Came. I saw no marks to lead-me to suppose there had been any scuffling, but the fern down the side of the ridge was pressed down as if he bad rolled down into the gully. I saw beside a flax bush about twenty yards above where the body was lying, a travelling bag, a little note book, and some parcels lying a little above the body between the flax bush and it, ‘■'Ad^Pfc ß Weber, M.D., who made the post mortem examination Jn my opinion deceased, died from stoppage of the heart’s action, in consequence of disease in that Ofgan, aggravated by exposure in inclement Weather. The jury found a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony,— >he deceased, wlm was in the commission of the peace at th« time of his death, was eleven years ago Provincial Treasurer of Southland, and subsequently a goldfields Warden at (Jrpuki.