INQUESTS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 290, 17 May 1875, Page 2

INQUESTS.

MB. AUSTIN PUSSELL.

An inquest was held on Saturday, the 15th inst., at the City Hotel, before J. W. S. Coward, Esq. on the body of Mr Austin Fussell, who died from the effects of a fall off a ladder in bis warehouse on Monday last. Mr 0. Bonnington was chosen foreman of the jury. From the evidence of George Main, a boy employed in the shop, and Alfred. Wright, assistant, it appeared that a few minutes after three o’clock that afternoon Mr Fussell, after returning from dinner, went to an upper room.to change his coat, and on coming down went into the back warehouse, where he was found shortly afterwards by the first witness, lying upon the asphalte in an unconscious state, with blood on one side of his face, and some on the asphalte. , The ladder and a basket he had evidently been removing from a landing werejyin'g alongside of 1 him. ’ The. witness.at once gave the alarm. No ohe was presept at.the time of the accident, and the ladder, which had slipped on the pavement, was, an old one, and not generally used. Dr !prins, who was called for at half-past three that afternoon, stated that he found deceased lying in the warehouse on his back;, be had been bleeding through thp nostrils, add was insensible. Had him conveyed to a room and applied the usual '(remedies, 1 hnd seeing the case' a Very, precarious ohe, called in Dra Tardbullr andj Syme in. consultation. Deceased remained insensible until his death. At the request of deceased’s friends he had opened Kis head, and on removing the scalp he found over the seat of injury (left temple and eyebrow) that the integuments were very.much, bruised. On removing the skull, found a large clot of blood resting on the brain. The whole of the brain was in an inflammatory state, and all the blood-vessels were t gorged with blood. Deceased died from the "effects of the injury and from concussion of the brain. His head coming into contact with the asphalte would be likely to cause the injury. The jury ret urned a verdict of “ Accidental death.’ ’

,i'j,-f JOSEPH;THOMPSON. An inquest was alsoheld at the Hospital on Saturday before the coroner on the body of Joseph Thompson, who met his death through injuries received at the Dunsandel station on Thursday last. The evidence showed that the deceased and two other men were engaged in the afternoon of that day loading logsof timber into a waggon by means of a steam crane. Deceased, who was at the winch, raised the logs to the required height, and left the platform to assist the other men to cant the jib of the crane. The lower end of the logs caught in the waggon, and in the efforts to disengage them they were suddenly jerked, causing one of the links of the chain to snap, the logs falling on the men, deceased, who was immediately under, receiving most injury. After the medical evidence had been taken, the jury returned a verdict of “ Accidental death.”