FATAL ACCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 4132, 25 May 1876, Page 2

FATAL ACCIDENT.

A shepherd named J. C. Campbell, employed on Morven Hills station, -was killed on Friday last by falling from hia horse, while riding home from Cromwell, It appeared (says the * Argus ’) from the evidence adduced at the inquest that deceased had been imbibing pretty freely during"the day, but was quite capable of riding home. Air J, Marsh saw him fall from his horse, and dismounting, turned the body over, and was of opinion that the man' was tn extremis, A cart coming by at the moment the body was removed to Perriam s Hotel, Lowburn. A surgeon was sent for, and on the arrival of Dr Corse he pronounced life extent, and that death must have been instantaneous. The jury, in accordance with the above" foots, found a verdict of ’‘Accidental Death.” The deceased was about forty years of age, a native of Itoss shire, Scotland, and had been sixteen years in the Colony; ho was unmarried, and had no known relatives in Kew 26alnd. ne of the jurymen called attention to the fact of its being an ordinary occurrence for passing equestrians to be startled by the rushing out of a ferocious dog near the spot where the accident occurred. This fact was corroborated by several persons, and the Coroner directed the attention of the police to the suppression of the nuisance.