CORONER'S INQUEST.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 19 July 1877, Page 3

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest v?a4 held at the Ballarat Hotel on Friday afternoon, the 13th, hefoue Mr. Buachj actiug Coroner, and a jury, of whom Mr. Icder was foreman, touching the death of August Augustus. "The jury having viewed the body, the evidence of Peter Bush, a miner, was taken. Witness and deceased Were employed by Andrew Brown, and were wording in a tail ra>ce about, five feet de*p. A piee« of earth, estimated to weigh About sight

hundredweight, fell on defeased, striking him on the forehead slitW rinht .elictiidefj and jnitfnainghmoo the oppprlts si«lc of the fcc3« With the assistance of if?. Crown, withees extrie.itiid tii« body, Piifl Dr. vrp.9 Bent f'T, Vho pronoiir.csrt !;f? to fee citiflot.Mr. Brown's evidence wis nminlj cor'robora' tiro o! th't of Buah. He was of r.pinion that t!"» pl:iei» In which deceased w«s working wae riot s. dangerous one. Whit-ion duposed that death w caused by a frtici.ar : of the right temple borie. Poiife-Cansf-Afcie Oaitlfffcfit gave evidence to the.elfoct tka: l.i> removed the body frorn the s<:e;io of- the accident (thd north side of Enterprise Gully) to tliS toirili On searching th« bo-ly, the ofily thifig iitf found was a pocket- knife.' The Ooronar expressed his bnliet that tlio ni'ath of Augusttia was partly the fesult of snaccidimt* arid fchff jury returned a terdict s&Jo'Hiingly. ths funeral took place at tHo conc'ilsum of tt><f inquesti Tho Good Tetnolar*, of wWfiii Order deceased wa« a tnfrober, formed in procession, and, accompanied by a large* tHftobfl* of Citizens, followed the cof-pce to tha grave* where t'ae burial service was read m a atnfc impressive manner by tha R£* J. Uubbti