CORONER'S INQUEST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 16 January 1877, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inques^washeld at the Custom House Hotel yesterday before Dr. Squires, the coroner and a? jury, on the body of William Herman Bftron, .whose .accidental death we reported yesterday.' The following evidence was taken i-^ A : - Louis Simpson;; sworn, said: I know the deceased only byatie name of Brown. '■ I was working With him. to-day at No. 2 Contract, the Port, Nelsonj > We' were working on the ; face of the^hill, taking down earth. We were ; gougii-g out a fall. ; He was standing in front lof it. lu&eartHfeUohhim, and partially i buried Mm. It gave ho warning before falling. ; I was fivei feet or so from himi The earth : struck him oii the legs. The heavy rain this i morning softened the earth and made it j weaker than; it wa§ before. We~ have been | working nearly f for nine months, and this; is { the;first accident .from earth falling that has ►occureia. ;The heaviest portion struck him on the head and back. -r W« got him but from under the.earth. \ He never moved after the earth tell pn hini;; The earth slipped off him down the bill, and his head was the only part covered when we went to take him up) We all*: work [together, ' one standing the same^nskj at.; the sameVtime we take all necessfry^pse'cautiohs. l^-y I John Turner, who wife working about four yards from the deceased at the time of the accident, gave evidence:similar to the above. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.