Recent Fatal Accident at Apiti.
An inquest on the remains of Jeremiah Sullivan, who was killed in a metal pit at Apiti on the 25 th inst., whs held at the Apiti Hotel, ou Wednesday afternoon before Mr T. J. Chapman, J. P., acting-Coroner, and jury of six, consisting of Messrs F. S. Guy (foreman), F. Fanthorpe, J. Goula, J. Lawson, E. Clifford and A. Beattie. The witnesses examined were E. G. McDermott, M. Cook, John McDermott, B. Mahony, Prince, and Constable Tuohy, and the evidence went to show that deceased was accidentally killed by a fall of metal, the jury returning a verdict in accordance. Deceased was unmarried. He was a native of Cork and had no friends in the Colony, where he arrived in 1870. The deceased's body was considerably bruised, tho most of the marks being about the head and the shoulders, and his lower jaw was dislocated. When extricated from the debris of the slip deceased was quite dead. The remains were interred in the Apiti cemetery yesterday afternoon.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 230, 29 March 1895, Page 2
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