FATALITY NEAR NO TOWN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1231, 9 July 1872, Page 2

FATALITY NEAR NO TOWN.

The District Coroner, Mr Revell, held an inquest yesterday, at Gilmer's Hotel, as to the death of Edward Wright, who had been brought into the Hospital on the previous evening, and who had died immediately after admission. The following is a summary of the evidence taken : — *» Dr Morice : The deceased was admitted in the Hospital at six on Sunday evening. He was cold, pulseless, and almost dead. The whole of the left side of the skull was fractured and knocked in. He died from these injuries in a few minutes after he was brought to the Hospital. Charles Harris: The deceased was a mate of mine for. the last three years, and was lately working with me in clearing a track for the telegraph line between Bed Jack's and No Town Creek. At the time he met with an accident on Saturday evening I was half-a-mile from him. When I first saw him he was lying with his head down hill, aud blood flowing from his mouth. There was a rotten log lying across or near his throat, and he seemed almost choked with blood. It required some effort to remove him, and, in consequence of the badness of the road, it took four of us half au hour to bring him to his tent. We attended, as far as we knew, to,his wounds, and at daybreak started to bring him to Camptown. He never spoke from the time he was found. A man named John Jones, who was working with the deceased, was away at the time at another camp, and informed me that, when he first found him, he was lying across a log with a rotten limb upon his neck. The deceased was an Englishman, unmarried, about forty years of j age, and has relations in Chris tchurch and Victoria. John Thomas, who had assisted to carry the deceased to town, described the log by which the man was struck as a rotten limb of a tree, about Bft to Oft long and Sin throi.'^h. It seemed to have fallen fro™ a c "\iiderable height, and was quite suftiri.nt t < cause the injuries found upon the il-crt -i/«l.- Jones, the mate of the deceusULi, had not come to town; as it was not anticipated there would be any necessity for his, doing so. Jones and the deceased were on the very best terms of friendship. . ' Charles Cramer, who had also assisted to convey the deceased to town, described his condition as the same on Sunday morning, when first seen, as when he was brought to the Hospital. In consequence of the absence of the witness Jones, who had first found the deceased, it was agreed to adjourn the inquest until Thursday, at two o'clock, and at the same place, for the purpose of procuring hia evidence.