Daily Colonist (1861-03-27) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1861-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

: by hi« d.Mth i deiitiil dischai,'

Crttcliing the gnniiel of Uie canoe whih

I his own h.nnd. (."signed).

I Charles Patch, foreman,

. u , , .u , John A Walton, John C. IL Chirk

Joseph..H.vjKjng.vJt was found that the p,,,,;,. ' Alex. McGowan

V'hole charge of bapkshot had passed through ^ wilier I boiiias. the fleshy part of his Ief||t>re88t in r slanting direction, and' had entered the left

! ebooldeir, .nearly (earing the arm from its

'■socket, and inflietinpt a horrible and fatal

■| be undersianed jurors are all of opinion, . . . ■ .

from the evidence Je have heard, that the I left for New Westminster last eyen.ng. (lecased (Kdward Hammond Kins) came | She carried 90 loos of fr«?iglit ni|a.,00 pas'-onnse(|tien, p of the ge„ger!i. Mtiny of iho paisensers aria bound

ol ii's ijiiii by the hammer "

was

of

only

derra.e Kvciy p

woiiiii]. The arm eliDuMer by pie/e uninjured. The heard .d aijonii's. nia.Ie l,y his disties.cd b:o:l Stciiai r li, .Maiin.-ii lilil llie.V such moans as were at hand, priivcd partially siiccesshil

to the niaine.l

ll'oil was 1 Caplaii,

1,1 fc his siifj'cmi; wil iie-scd, and \ the cnnoc fr.iin i

[: with .iicii bri

a toilihiili' ii^hl aloii!." , in answer

l'.eni|;l 'iptain raiely 'iili' in to an

inquiry atldressed to him by Captain Stewart, (laid—" Oh, I've only blown my arm off; 1 iliipk Burnaby's ^nn must have gone off by tificiJont." Burnaby's gun was examined »t«n<l found to bo loaded, while uno batrol of Xitig's weapon was found to havn been Tocently discharged, The deceased, a few ininulcs after roliirning to iho schooner, iinid, " It was nil my own fault ; 1 now fcnliovo my gun went oil' when I uuh jiiilling it out ('f the I'ac'ie.'' An iitlempt wan made the nevt day to scnid the iliil'ortiliiate 'ooillcinan to V'o liiiia in a e:i-

I'liiiiprl led It to icliiin. ( til the ■ le day

the --eliooi.ci- was lieailcd Im Soma('a |ii, ^^atilp'.^ ■-I'ttleiiieiil on I'larchiy .'MMiiid, in onli r to obti.iii inedifal troalinotit fur t' o udiiiiili.'d ninn, liiit hu oxpirad on Ihu 7lli •Titiboat flno hour boforti,:|l}0',y^u«l ruached ''"(ho Rstllemu.il, and wliDe it x/m in full ••^IIbIiI. Ho relnlnod his senses nimosi In iho lait, and frc(]uontly bogged for an upiatu to iluAiIen tlio pain, in order that ho might ooN loothlH lonsol and nrfango hisntriiirs boforo ilnalh iiiiNuiid. lie wiis fully eunsiiiutiN from Ih4i lirtt, iind declared his bollof that the woniid would pruvu liilal.

Upot'i tho arrival ol tho vosiol al Somas, Cipt. Kdvrtrd Stamp rvndorod tysr/ iiilit*

Rdwaril A. Sharpe, Robert Todd. 'I'honias Waller,

William Moirison. -loVi l.aikm, Andrew .Mc Lean, I':i)w,\iti> Stamp, Acting Coroner. Somas, liarchiy Sound. March 8, 1801.

ntoaaAPitiOAi,. Capt. Edward Hammond King, the siili-jflot of this-brief sketch, was born at Stoke Devorll, Devonshire, Kngland, on the IL'ib. of Jnlv, I.'*!-, and was con-o'cpieotly in the •.Vllh year of iiis aje at llie tin' time ,,| lo-^ lb in': e. lit! was the elile>i snrviviii:: son of .Major .lidiil William K:nL', 1'. I'. I'- I'orHh Fiisileer-, mid cnlered tiieaimy in b^.'iH, at till- .Mily a::o ol 17 ye.

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