INQUEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 39, 5 February 1908, Page 4

INQUEST.

The colonial ciufuirv into ihe chvuniMaii'vs Ihe death of ticnij-,. ' kondall. a tanner, of Jlunoid road, was i conducted yesterday In - Air. 11. S. , Cormier, with a jury of :-i\. Kfiniiilt, who lml livid with his father on thr J'arni at lluiford road, i-aid the a«>r of the was liti \rar-. Ili> lather liad hern in the hahil ' .>J" takini; milk 1" the I'aiinry. jijid hi! !.»[• 11n' t;M'tory on I'Yiday .<«< u-ual in i trap. driving a <|iuct lioiMr was thru apparently in Ihmlili. Later on lh r li<>r<e c.imr h.mu' with 1 h.li;irn''--> on. and i>» -iv whal \mis the nutter. On i!u- road ln< tomid (hilt iih T"-iliter had h.'i-u picked up. ||i< urn- i .tn-cidii-. and twld \\ Itnr>-. . 111.- li'»r-(' kid >iu,,l and rim ji\v ; «x. .ui-l ! ih,H I lie u lii .-I had pa---.1 i.\, i hi- . i-hct. A \va- u i;!i iu !t . Tie-\ ' -larlrd lor (ho h-|»it;il. in< r: mi 11>.• ; way llr. Wylir. who had )>rrn '-iiuminn,i|. D.vca-nf had heen .siilij . . i« h-.

d.dm I). (.1 aetihilk Untu'r mi : h.- Ihi 1 :'.»rd road. -aid lie had the d • for \r;u<. (in I'Vidav 111.1i.1iu_. Il- U> hmkih'i luf a ei ill pb' ..1 (!.«, thai had -1 i-.i\. d. Mn Kendall in himilk r.ul and -poke I.< him. Aboin tlllcC IUMIUtc-. later he -aw 'lie fi.l jt and iaii tn a--i-iai:< a. I'mind Kendall on hi- hand- an I kn« v-. The lu.r-e wa- -landing by and :h.' .-art ua- up-ide down. I)eer.i>-ei I aid lie wahun imiardlv. and evpijimd thai tha < Imr-e had -hied. Kendal! li.nl l.rou in good hralth when he Jir-i -aw tiim in the morning, The hor-e wa- <|iiiet. 1,11! nervou*. The carl went over tin- hank, and the nun, In- thought. tell .le.ir of the metal, hut one ol the wheel- mu-l have over his enc.-t. Dr. W'yli.- gave evidence that he lir-t -aw Kendall in a conveyance about half a mile front the Omata -tore. on hiway to t hr hospital, lie wafront -slnH-k and severe internal injuririto |ji- client. 'l'll,, pa lir lit wa> athnilt'.'d to tlie l]o>i»ital. Imt allhoiinh he rallied a little soon alter ailini he gradually sank, and died at I oVlork on Sal arday. A post mortem oxamination iv. vcaled that six nhs on the right -id.' had ln'on hvokeii. and live 011 tin 1 hdt: the loft collar-hone had Immii detailird from its attachment to the ami Ihe ihjht collar hmie hrnken- Km-h liad hern wounded hv broken <-nd«»f rihs. There was p\ten-i\c brui-inii. and there win n contusion of hlood amo]?<r (ho |i{«- hlood-ve>-els a( the root of the neck. The heart \va* the of extonsive*faily dis«'a-f. and the blood-vossels wore al-o extensively diseased. Tlte cause of death was heart, j failure eon>e«|ueul upon the injurie- reI ccived. 'J'lte injuries were -ncli ;b A\ouhl be oatised by n wheel of a earl pa«*iii£ over his client from left to ri;}ht. The condition of the heart and vowls would make the docca-ed more than ordinarily liable to a giddy fit. especially if excited by his hor-e shying or j anything of thai kind, j The jury returned a verdict of "ueeii dental death."