INQUEST.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 39, 23 February 1878, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquest was held on Wednesday last, by Dr. Rocksitow, Coroner, on. the body of Qcorge Andiwv Nash* a b<\y of nine years | of age, Mflio, met \\is death under most p^inf id circum3tan,ces 4 o.n. tha previous d.ay. i Norma,!!, Nash x the father of the, boy, dap.os.cd,: I came home from, n^y- wjcvrk a,b.ou,t six o'clock on . horse- back- < I met | t\\o ; of my boys.at th,e slip, ba,rs leading into. I n\y pad,4o,ck. Deceased asked n\e if he 1 should tether, tfye horse, I handed, him o,vaif tli,e ropp. wh\ch. wjas rotund tl\a horaefs. n,eok, and I saw the boy leading the horse u,nderHeath th,a clothes line, v?luch was close to I the house. I then went into the. house, got a, towel and soap, to have, a w^sh outside I was absent a i'esy rap ments ; when I. came o.u,t I missed the. boy and the. horse, Hy attention w,as. directed to. a, broken fence. I can as fast ajs t could up the. road, and found Mr John. .Johnson standing oyer- my ; boy. He told m e thp.t he had sent for the ; D,octor. The.boy died a fev^mompnts after. I John Johnson, a carpenter, deposed;:.! i came from the Avenue towards the town, ; on Tuesday evening about six o'clopk,. when : I saw a hprse m . A^r- Nash.'a. paddock. : galloping do^n W p^ddopk towards the | fence. I could, sea that the. horse had a rope round his neck, and. dragged something 'along at tb<e. end. of tlie. rope. Thahprse jumped the fence, arid the. fence. was broken, down by the deceased, who, was, en.tanglpd at the end of tha ropp. ''The. hprse then gajlpped across the Avenue Road, oyer logs a.njd, sfcunip^ and^ w.a^ brought up against a fence. I tben,cu.t the rope and sent for» the. Doctor, the. child' died, shortly after. | The Cojroper. explai.npd. to, tha^ury that !hs. saw the: boy immediately he w,as picked up. Life w^not quite extin.ct :. he fojiAd, that the. boy had, broken, his neck \ ihe right foot was nearly torn off the leg ; the.left builder brojien, the body veijy much bruised, aud blood, eo.mjii^ oat of his mouth and [ nostrils ; the chijd died m, a few. moments. | The j iyy, of w.bjch, Mg. ."^p,w.er. was i\\e^ ' f operaa n t b^omghjb m, the follp\vijig wdict •<-—. That the said" Qeorga Andrew N"ash; came ' to, hjls dea,tl\ab Eo^tori^ on tbe. l%h day of February 18^8, aocidenta^y having, beeivenf . tangled m, a ropp, fastened, to, a, horsa w,hicb hp.\v;a3. about to. tether m. a pad,dppk % the said horse appearing to hare been fxsightened^ ' and to h.ave galloped off, but by what means . he wras so, frightened, there was np evidence to, show. -■'.-.""'. -. 1 After tha inquest w.as over, the. boy was 1 buried m Foxton Cemete^r, arid4Was.fpll.owed, , tp^he giuva. by most of his school fellows. Tne Rev. Mr Sheriff: read, the burial service.