INQUEST.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1914, 13 April 1880, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquest was held at the Kakaia Hotel on Monday, to inquire into the cause of death of the man who fell out of the express train on Saturday. From the evidence of Henry Giffins it appeared that deceased sat down on the platform of the railway carriage, directly over the buffer and couplings, where he had not been sitting above two minutes when some one called out “He’s gone!” Charles Heaton, the guard of the train, said that he felt the train pass over some obstruction. He looked out and saw a man lying on the lino. Had not seen the man before to the best of his knowledge. Ho did not oven know that ho had been a passenger in the train. Sergeant Oarlyon, of the police force, stationed at Tomuka, identified the body as that of James Clark, a tailor, living at Temuka, whither ho had come from Invercargill. Deceased had told him that ho formerly belonged to the 75th Regiment, of which he was staff-sergeant and tailor. He identified deceased by a bullet wound which he had in his left cheek and by his features. After hearing a good deal of evidence the jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” with a rider to the effect that there is not sufficient protection for passengers on the platforms of the carriages.