A Self-sacrificing Coroner.
(Pkr Press Association.) Sydney. Dec. 28. The veteran Coroner, Dr Youll, modestly divulged a tale of self-sacrifice which deserves to bo chronicled as illustrating the fact that ibe Civil Service has heroes as well as the more favoured naval and military services. Addressing a jury at an inquest on a drowned seaman, the Coroner remarked that dead mariners were much fewer than used to be. This, be said, was all his own doing. In the old days sailors drifting home drunk frequently had to walk up a plank which would prove a puzzle to a sober man in daylight. As often as not the seaman fell iuto the water. The Coroner insisted that nets should be placed under all gangways and many poor fellows were saved from a watery grave. The nets were; a splendid notion and, added the Coroner, " they were against my own interest too, for in those dayß I was paid two guineas for every inquest. The net naved the men and spoilt my fees."
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 153, 30 December 1895, Page 2
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171A Self-sacrificing Coroner. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 153, 30 December 1895, Page 2
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