INQUEST.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 107, 17 March 1871, Page 3

INQUEST.

An inquest was held on. the evening of Wednesday last, before 11. W. Bobinson, Esq., Coroner, on view of the body of a Chinaman named Sun Ah, whose body had been that day found on the side of the spur beyond where the Kyeburn road branches off to the left of the Dunedin road, about a mile and a quarter from Naseby. The evidence of several Chinese went to prove that the deceased lived alone in a tent in the Main Grully, and that sometimes lie worked at mining, and at other times did nothing ; that he was looked upon *as " cranky," and had been, both here and in Victoria, an habitual opium smoker. He had been absent from his tent, whicli caused his countrymen to seek for him till he was found as described.

Dr. M'Cambridge, on oath, stated that he had examined the body of the deceased, and should suppose when he did so that lie might have been deid twenty-four hours. The body was much emaciated. Saw nothing to lead him to suspect that death had resulted from other than natural causes. Might have been laboring under the narcotic effects of opium, and while in that state have met with his death from exposure.

Constable Chartres, on oath, deposed to his having gone, in company with some Chinamen, to where the body of deceased was found, and bringing it in to aseby. The , constable made a statement of the position of the body, the clothing, and the property which the deceased had about him. He had the body brought in to Naseby. A sort of brown fluid, like opium, was (lowing from out of the side of the mouth. The body when found was quite stiff.

Verdict: Died by the visitation of God.