INQUEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3366, 21 November 1889, Page 2

INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Edwin Holloway, the six-year-old son of Mr F. Holloway, who was run over and killed yesterday at tho Masterton Raihvtf ■ Station. The inquiry, was held % the old Court Eoom before Colonel Roberts, coroner, and a jury of six, of which Mr G, C. Sago was chosen foreman.

Dr Milne Baid ho was called between twelve and one o'clock on account of an accident at the RiSts'ay Stataion, He wont to the goods shed and there saw the body of deceased. Au external examination showed a compound iraclure of the skull over the left temple extending along the right side to tho back of the. head and causing a laceration of thejj brain. The chest also appeared be crushed. He considered death must have beon instantaneous.

Stephen Harding said he was a carrier. Yesterday ho went to the Railway Station with an empty timber wagon drawn by two horses. He believed a lad named De Clifton was riding behind, and he noticed deceased in the goods shed. He did not see deceased go on the wagon nor any other boys. After logftig lis had just started the horses jjpen Do Cliiton, who was riding Mind called out to him to puil up, and looking rouud he saw the hind wheel passing over tho ebouldcra and head of deceased. Ho pulled up, but too late, howover,to prevent the acoident. He then jumped down, turned the body over, and saw that life was apparently extinct. Dr Mi'no was I at once sent and for arrived in a few minutes. .

George de Clifton, a schoolboy, said lie saw deceased in the goods shed, and having seated himself on a bale called on Holloway to jump up beside him if he wished to go down. Deceased seemingly did not ride alongside of him, and he did pt see him get on the wagon at all, Just after the horses started ho heard a scream and called out to the driver, who immediately stopped, but the wheels had passed over deceased. Frederick Holloway, father of deceased, stated ho last saw tho boy alive at 8 o'clock that niorn( '-, The body was conveyed to bisWe\tdence about 1 o'clock, The rather fond of horses, He was six ■years of ago in May last James Donald, in tho employ of Messrs Gordon and Co, grocers, said ho was standing near at the time of accident, and hearing someone sing out ho looked over and saw deceased falling from the back part of the wagon in front of the hind wheel, which appeared to pass over his body and then his head, The wagon started from alongside the goods platform, and deceased evidently missed his footing jumping on to the wagon,

The Jury returned a verdict that deceased came by his death by the wheel of a wagon passing over him, and that no blamo was attached to the driver. The jury also suggested that drivers should discontinue alMfe ing children to ride upon their VsirV eles as described in the ovidence.