AN ECCENTRIC CORONER.
Coroners are occasionally eccentric in their proceedings. One of these officials in New South Wales has just given a sample of this by holding an inquest on a Sunday,in a case in which the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter against the medical gentleman who attended the deceased. It is not alleged that the pressure of official duties compelled him to make this week of work a full one of seven days, and there was nothing in the case to necessitate a hurried inquiry. The coroner, moreover—and his place of abode is the town of young-—had forgotten that holding such an inquiry on Sunday is illegal. The Solicitor-General of New South Wales was appealed to by the medical gentleman whom the jury had judged guilty of manslaughter, and the proceedings were at once quashed. A second inquest was then held by the same coroner, when the second jury found that the deceased had died from natural causes, and censured her friends for not having sooner sent for the medical man whom the first jury had pronounced against.
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Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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181AN ECCENTRIC CORONER. Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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