Coroner's Inquest.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5048, 18 March 1885, Page 2

Coroner's Inquest.

An inquest into the circumstances attending the finding of human remains (supposed to be those of G. Dixon) yesterday, was opened at the Governor Bo wen Hotel at 3 o'clock this afternoon, before Dr Kilgour, Esq., Coroner, and the following jury :r-Gr. Ginn (foreman), H. Willis, T. Colhoun.E. Simpson, F. Bates, D. Brown, Piggott, D. Tookey, J. Blain, C. Curtis, S. Alexander, and F. Hall.

After viewing the body, evidence was taken as follows:—

Mary McAllister deposed to finding the remains yesterday. She told her mother, who went and looked at them, and her father then told the police, whom she glided to the spot. She believed the color of the coat on the remains was blue.

Inspector Kiley here stated the facts of Dixon's disappearance, and that the clothes in which he was last seen corresponded in the main with those found on the remains. The length of the skeleton also corresponded with Dixon's height.

Detective Doolau deposed to proceeding yesterday to the spot where the remains were lying. The clothes consisted of a blue serge coat and vest, tweed trousers, and a cotton or linen shirt (with collar attached), flannel, and lace-up boots. Measured the reinains, which without the head were 63 inches long. Turned the remains over, and found a sheath knife (produced) lying in the bones of the fingers, which were under the breast. The head was found about 5 yards down the hill. The remains were put in a sack and conveyed to the Hotel. John Peters, who had known Dixon since 1874, positively identified the cloth* j ing, knife, and match-box as belonging to j him.

This concluded the evidence, and after a short deliberation the jury brought in the following verdict:— "That the remains are those of the late George Dixon, but there is no evidence to show how he came to hip death."

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