INQUEST.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 231, 6 March 1875, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday at the house of the deceased, on the Lincoln road, before J. W. S. Coward, Esq, coroner, on the body of Edward Hayton, who met his death by falling into a well the previous evening. Mary Hayton, wife of deceased, stated that about half-past eightthe previous night she was upstairs, and heard as she supposed her husband come to the door. She then heard voices talking and went down stairs and opened the door. She said “ is that you Ned ” and the men then went away and shortly afterwards she heard the sound of the iron bucket at the well. She went there and felt about and called to the men who fcsd not got past the gate that her husband was

in the well. They came and she ran fora light, and then saw her husband in the well, one of the men having hold of his hand. They got him out but he was unconscious. His clothes were at once taken off, fomentations applied, and every means taken to restore him. A doctor was sent for. but her husband was dead when he arrived. John Murray gave evidence of he and a man named Taylor being in company with deceased the previous night. They took him as far as his door, and when they heard Mrs Hayton call out upstairs they left, and had got as far as the gate when they heard cries for assistance. They ran back, and Mrs Hayton said she thought her husband was in the well. They went there and found deceased with his knees doubled up, but the water was not over his head. They got him out and took oft his clothes. Mrs Hayton and Taylor tried to restore him while he(witness) went foradoctor. Dr Patrick stated that he was called by the last witness about nine o’clock the previous night. When he reached the house he found the deceased lying on the floor, with his clothes thrown over him. He was dead. There were four scars on his face—one near the end of the nose, one on the left side, and one at the top of the nose where it joined the forehead—those were not recent. There was a bleeding wound on the centre of his forehead—it was a contused wound, and to the right of it there was an abrasion. These two wounds he thought were inflicted at the same time. The hair of deceased was dry. He could not form any opinion as to the cause of death. The jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental Death.”