INQUEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1680, 8 May 1884, Page 2

INQUEST.

An'enquiry.jrib'ttlie cause of.death of a man named (Tames Wood .was held by Mr Wardell, coroner, in a'whare at theiailway, i works ) on : the/Mnstertori-' Opaki.sectipii^at.l.2.o'clock this morning. Mr f no/'Sraithias chosen ;foremanof the jury. '■■ " ';'."'' ': Samuel' (BartletJ,: ;.called■.' as.. first: witness, deposed'that he was employed on the line as brakesman tofour trucks, one-being a biake truck.' About ten o'clock he was coming from the cutting down ; to theitip. with ; . dirt, The man Jas; Woods' was driving the horses (2) in frontofthe trucks; The incline of the lineis! in-80yds, '... He saw Wood fall in front.of the. truck, but .witness: did : not know whaV made' him fall. One wheel went over deceased, and it threw the' truck ; off' the' line. He then i!alled.to,J)lie" other men for assistance, and shouted to ' the ' horses. ,to stop.; Deceased- ohly'sp\>ke once say ing, <' Ohv' Jesusf^'Wid;he then,helped to carry him 1 to the :he, how lay. He was. •breathing: heavily. ' : In reply.; to the; foreman, witness said' dieeasM'Hv'as under the waggon when he first him.., r . v • ■ 'Wallace" T^fcr,galled, said; he was a navvy on the line; also, that he heard the•"*la'stJ'witriesa call for assistance, and.'found when ; he. got there deceased lying, under ■ the'truck,. the fh#' triict being ■ thrown off the line, He helped to carry- deceased to where he iiowlay.*: ■ Deceased was breathing when hoi .'was taken- indoors,: D.r Hosting . was's'ent for, and,.arrived some short time before he died. Constable Harriett knew the man as Jas, Woods,'having seen him in Weilingfon,; .His'age wasahou't 32. The Corohei; asked the jury if they thought tbeMicoident was due to ; any negligence on the,part of the waggons used, or being out of repair, and he would'-leave., them -to consider their verdict,- ,: v:

The jury, after a short.deliberation, said : that,the death was'■ caused by a pure accident, and "no blame was'to-be attached td any of' the articles used in the work.-,' .'". ■'-.' '.