INQUEST

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2220, 15 February 1886, Page 2

INQUEST

At 9 o'clock this morning an inquest washeld before H. A. Stratford, Coronor.and a jury of six persons of whom John Graham junr, was foreman. After viewing the body, Edgar Eton assistant chemist tjhe first witness was called, and deposed that he was at the upstairs window about 2 o'clock, he heard a rattle of a vehicle and saw a trap with deceased therein. He had not got the reins in his- hands. Ho saw him give a hand spring from the cart, and ho fell on his head, witness, inyned. iately ran down and found someone assisting the injured man. He helped to get him into his father's shop where his father attended to him, Dr Board was immediately sent for, He did not arrive for about three quarters of an hour when tho man was dead,

S. F. Beard, Burgeon, deposed (hat he was called by Constable E[e,aly about quarter past two to see, a man named Thomas Ppnejly.' He "was attending at the time, tp Jfaines. fyirkp, wlvp, said he was injured in the same trap aooident as Donelly. Ha told the Constable he would come down as soon as he had attended to Burko. He went down about 40 minutes afterwards, and met Mr Eton on the road, who informed him the man was dead. On his arrival at the shop he found such to bo the case. Deceased had a bruise on the left forehead, which wa,s tl\o only mark of yjolonce ho cquld detect. He, oj pjtinjpn that tljo pause of death was concussion o,r compression of the brain, He thought everything had been done in the absence of export treatment, and that treatment oould not have saved lu's life. Ho could not attorn! at onco, aB Burke, the patient at his house\ was bleeding from the temporal artery, which was divided and bleeding from both ends, and he had no means of knowing the seriousness of Donnelly's case, but under any circumstance Ije could not havo left Bujkji ty attend }u% Geofge 0. B.en.njngtpii deppsefl lie coming alo|ig "Bannister-street and saw lire accident, He ran \o the aspijitftn.ee of those y-ho. w/ere attpnclipg deceased, ■ and helped payry him into the shop of Mr Eton, There was blood on his forehead. Sergeant Price stated that when tho Constable found that Dr Beard was attending another patient he immediately went for Dr Hosking. The latter \\wj, however, away from hom,p, ' "'"' The jury, without retiring, returned a yerdlct of Accidental Death.