INQUEST AT PORT CHALMERS.
An inquest was held this morning at tho Provincial Hotel, before Dr O’Danoghue coroner, upon the body of WULam Leuton! who was drowned by the cipsigmg of a boat m the upper harbor on the 25th of May. i he following evidence was given {-Ernest W-Mn a B ? aßaaa belonging to the ship Wild Deer, who was present at the last inquest, corroborated the evidence then given by him. He recognised th< body now in the morgue as that of William Lenten, who was drowned along with Butterfield, Gasfield, and Skene on the 26th of May. Witness recognised the body on ae-
count of the clothe?. Witness believed deceased s age to be about seventeen.—Constable Carter said that on Saturday afternoon a W named Osborne came to his house and informed him that ho had found a body round by the end of the Peninsula. Witness, with ancther constable, took a boat and proc eded to the spot, where he found the body, face downwards, in a bight off Mussel Bay, and conveyed it to the morgue. —I he jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidentally drowned by the upMay/” “• UW> ' r H ” W “
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Evening Star, Issue 3541, 29 June 1874, Page 2
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200INQUEST AT PORT CHALMERS. Evening Star, Issue 3541, 29 June 1874, Page 2
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