INQUESTS.

Evening Star, Issue 4215, 30 August 1876, Page 4

INQUESTS.

An inquest was held at .Port Claaimers onMonifey touching the'death of' J. A. Popham, and after a earing 'the evidence of Messrs Jr and i 'oopor, •ftdJ Dt»: yerdiqt of ‘VDied from At Oamarn on Saturday the jury who inquired into the oirenmatanoee attending the •ecident at Meek sflohrmilb-by which John M'Mnrtrie lost his life} added a rider recommending. .that, all t shafting where exposed : to6uxlT be boxed and inade 1 secure from all danger. ~ Further particulars are r given in the ‘ Mail ’ dl the accident at Shtover Gorge by which 0 Itttlo fellow named Aldred-loat his life last .•rtdeq, jDeocaaed and two other lads, named ’-'Blokitdeand) Shore— the 'one .abokt five and -fksr-<flftiber eight years old—were out on the •astern hiU of the.-Sbotover Gorge on Monday .afternoon. The latter two returned dhdobk, bht said nothing-about •heir other oompanionuntil pressed later in Che evening, when Richards confessed that A|jwaped had fallen over the cliffs. Next , ; the '"body wak found among the mrhs lt" was still warm'; kSdf life had -*nly recently departed, "and ? iIT is supposed that the,little fellow had probably fallen •Imqet pnhurt .on to onoof the grassy lodges of rook during ; the • parlief portion of the night, where he had perhaps cried himself to Oleep)- and on. being awakened wit hj the cold had wandered in darkness over the fat d J»dgp. ..The whole depth he foil must h»ve “b©en fioO feet, but it was no doubt the .last m/hSarßi ,100; : feetl which sealed his'fate, Aeoordfng to report great .blame is attach•hie to the lad >hore lofbonoealing the accident, an’it ismoht IflSHy that had" the by been extricated some fivo hours earlier his fife might have been' .saved. ' A verdict of v f/ ; Ap«dental Death.’-’ was returned by the rweortmer’ajury. ’