a preliminary enquiry,
and whenever an autopsy is necessary a request has to be made for a Jury to be summoned and the Coroner has to proceed to the Government Civil Hospital and view the body and take the evidence.
In many urban cases the circumstances to be enquired into require the utmost delicacy of treatment and the greatest minuteness of investigation. Sometimes it is a death occasioned by pressure, sometimes by the falling in of a roof, sometimes by the explosion of a boiler, sometimes by the result of a collision in the harbour, and occasionally by murder.
In all these cases the surrounding circumstances have to be investigated. The scene of the death has to be visited, and frequent adjournments to be made. In a case which I recently held one hundred and eighty pages of depositions had to be taken, and the enquiry lasted for exactly a month, and in several other cases twenty or thirty pages of evidence have been taken and the enquiry adjourned from day to day. Minute points of law constantly arise, and the Coroner has to keep his undivided attention sustained.
The journey to the Civil Hospital is through the thickest part of the Chinese town, and at the inquest it is the view of a body in a less advanced stage...
a preliminary enquiry,
and whenever au
is necce e ar
tary
a
request
Jury
has
to be summoned and the
Coroner has to proceed to the Government Civil Hospital and view the body and
take the evidence.
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unban els
calcs
the
to be enquired
nito require the utmost delicacy of treatment and the greatest minuten of maisteration.
Sometimes it is
a death
occasioned by pre, sometimes
by the falling in
of a roof,
sometimes by the explosion
boiler, sometimes by
of a collision in the harbour,
and o
occasionally by murder.
In all these cases the
surrounding arcumstances
have to be included,
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scene
of
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the death has to be
visited, and frequent
adjournments to be made.
Ju
a
case which I recently
held one hundred and
mnetpeight pages of
depositious had to be taken,
and the
enquiry
lasted
for exactly a mouth, and in several other cases twenty
or thurty pages of
evidence
have been taken and the
enquiry adjourned from
day to day. Minute points
of
law constantly arise, and
the Coroner has to keep his
undivided attention sustained.
The
Journey to the Civil Hospital his through the thickest part of
the
Cluniese town, and at the
lud
in a
of
it is the view of a body
Weone
less advanced
stage
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