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Show INQUEST HELD OVER VICTIMS AT HARTLEPOOL HARTLEPOOL, via London, Dec. 1", 11:05 p. m. An inquest began here toilav over the bodies of seventy-nine victims of the German bombardment, killed in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. Hartle-pool. lu opening tho court the coroner said that never before in English history his-tory had an inquest been held under similar circumstances and that he hoped the occasion would never occur again. The shelling of the Hartlepools, he added, afforded a faint idea of what Belgium und France bad- Buttered through the German invasion. The evidence, though mostly of a formal character, brought to light some pathetic cases. 'An old woman was picking up coal dropped from cars on the railway embankment when she was killed by a shell. An old man and his two daughters were rust starting breakfast break-fast in the kitchen 'when a shell burst in the room, killing all three of them. A young woman went to the house of he'r aged mother, intending to conduct con-duct her to a place of safety. Entering Enter-ing tbe passageway she stumbled across her mother 's bodv. A shell had pierced the roof and killed her. An elderly man, who thought the gun firing was that of British ships at practice, sat down unconcernedly to breakfast. A shell carried away the corner of his house, killing his two little grandchildren. The verdict rendered by the coroner's cor-oner's jury was that the deaths of the seventy-nine persons were due to bombardment of the twin boroughs "by an enemv, who, under cover of a dense fog, t'ired shot and shell into the towns, killing many unarmed ci- , vilians. " |