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Show SAD FATALITY YAT ARMAGH. On Monday Mr. John A. Peel, solicitor, Armagh, Ar-magh, coroner for the mid-division of the county, held an inquest in tho workhouse on the body of 'a young lad named William Robert McClatchey, who died from the result of an accident of a peculiar and sad nature. From the evidence of the mother of the deceased, it appeared that on tho 14th of May the deceased came into her house with his eye all blood, and said he had been hurt. His eye was also covered with dirt. She brought the lad to the infirmary and' had the eye dressed. From the evidence evi-dence of a young lad named Steenson, it appeared that on the 14th of May, the date of the accident, the deceased and Steenson had been playing at a manure heap in Steenson's yard, and that the deceased de-ceased said he would get up on the manure heap, I and, in order to do so, he placed 11 grap which was there on the ground, with the prongs up, and then, stood on the handle of the graip, so as to "speel" up the graip. As soon as he stood on the handle the graip turned towards him, and one of the prongs went into his eye. Dr. Herron, who was examined, stated that the child was admitted to the workhouse infirmary on Thursday, May 19, and that on admission he found the deceased unconscious, uncon-scious, and also that the right half of his body was paralysed, which indicated that the left side of the brain- was affected. He afterwards had a consultation consul-tation with Dr. Palmer. Dr. Palmer proved to the dressing of the eye in the infirmary and also to holding a consultation with Dr. Herron on the fol-- fol-- lading Friday. On consultation it was dicovererl that one isde of the child's body was paralysed. In his opinion death was due,' to the inflammation of the brain following tho wound. The jury returned j a verdict of accidental death . ' |
