THE LATE INQUEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 844, 12 August 1881, Page 2

THE LATE INQUEST.

[To tlm Editor of the Wairabapa Daily.] Sir,—ln your issue of the 9th instant I .observe' or sub-leader seriously reflecting upon"' the cbnducf of tho Ijjsjncf OmTO]_er.; v , iSfjff, Sjr, tim] pears t'q iqp th'atthis '•Wfta.vatlierfor and was misleading in its lone/aiJa , certainly showed ignbrance on'your part as to the duties i-eapectively of Coironor and Coroner's juries. Tbeg to point out to you that altkbugli the x ,Ooroner presides, it is thejuiyiwho find the verdict j aud ypii.wjll surely- .not argue that the Coroner; wdnlU attemptViovbfas.tha ftind| ■of :or tl?at if he,d|d so. he, could influ'eiiee 'the #'djotr jbf .#n|intelh"ent qf i- ; persons) vivho amyeif If 'their .decision after hours of careful considers, tion was/ called: for : js ■ ; fujly :bbrne ■ but^by 1 reports obncer^iie^ffl^|^a tthic|i (were curi|entffi;:feathorstph:ai the \mtf andt absolutely:; necessaryi ■ tjia^M-|matUr ;

Idp not consideitliat tbio Coroner acted.•.without dißCMtionj'br tjiattb 1 slioiild liaye'j refused toprßsldo on tlio occasion simplyl ■ becftuse—as' you Vvfefy ungracefully state "• ■ (i , —a was ; mixed up in: :;, the .as you state, "av- .... raignsd on a,sbrious charge. In con-; . ~ ohißion, I may.state,that the evidence! of; one of the. principal witnesses differed' 1 materially at the'■ enquiries before, the: Coroner and E,M„ and through this tho aspect of the easels very considerably y altered, and Bhbuld certainly have been, Vpointed out at tho second enquiry, y ,; 1am,&0., \ ''■'.'..''■''■ ' A Jraoiu ["A Juror" misapprehends the ground on which wo based our comment. Dr Spratt,.'by. conducting an enquiry in •which'a medical man practising in his ' 'neighborhood' was subjected to a grave ; charge, laid himself open to two imputaone, that ho would have an undue ■■, sympathy with Dr Hanratty, '•' the other that lie would not be personally i friendly" to his opponent. Uudor such dircumstances, it would have been better for- him to have delegated his authority, in.Jhis particular inskuce to a nonmedical man. Our experience of coroner's inquests in this district isalargor one than that of our correspondent, and it does not lead us to the conclusion to ,wliich he ■apparently has arrived, viz., tliat in such inquiries the jury iB every- , , thing, and the Coroner a cipher.—Ed. W.D/| ;

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