A Wellington Verdict
_ The following verdict (say the daily papers) was recently returned by a corpner's jury in Wellington :—' Deceased met his death by failing" to grasp a rail "that had'been removed the day before.* This is one of the bits of serenely unconscious humor that adds;a joy to this ' wale-of tears.' ' There was, on the other hand, a whiff of grim but conscious^ humor in two verdicts returned seventy years ago -by ' Irish juries at inquests on men killed in party ' shindies.' ' The deceased,' said one verdict, * met his death by the visitation of God under suspicious circumstances.' Another coroner's-juiy found that 'Tom Cusack was killed by the fall of a piece of timber on his head.'
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New Zealand Tablet, 27 August 1908, Page 22
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118A Wellington Verdict New Zealand Tablet, 27 August 1908, Page 22
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