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there. When I w ent io he asked me the price of crates and I gave it. He chatted about what brocoli he had and gave me *an order for 100 crates and a sovereign as “earnest.” He offered me five pounds, but I would not take it. He agreed for £10 10s. for the 100 crates.—The Coroner : — Why was he so flush with his money!—Mr. Jacka Because he wanted to make sure of thecrates io the Spring and the man who pays most on account gets first served.—WitnessYes, that is so; butl didn’t want five pounds. In a quarter of an hour he ordered his horse, which was brought up and he went out. I went to the door.—The Coroner : -Whj did you go to the door ?—Witness Because 1 was going home. Mr. Oats had the horse’s head and Brewer the stirrup andGve Mr. Semmens a lift-up. I don't know that he needed that t-jp. Brewer put his hand behind but I hardly call it assistance. —The Coroner :—Why was all this wanted ?—Witness :—I should not want it if I had no drink, but this horse was all of a caper and tall. Besides this Mr. Semmens was in drink, of course, but he could have got into the saddle without aid, although not easily.—Mr. Jacka:—Are you aware that Mr. Semmens had a stiff leg—knee, ankle, and foot ?—Witness :—No.— Mr. Jacka :—He had then ; he had lost two or three toes and sometimes had a good deal of difficulty eveo in walking.—W’itness : —Mr. Oats held on the horse’s head, going up over the hill, and deceased went on all right.—The Coroner :—Why did Oats hold the horse’s head!— Witness Because it seemed restive. 1 am not a horseman myself. I thought after deceased was on the horse that he went away all right. When I got to Mr. Semmens (I was the fourth to reach him) in about 20 minutes after he left I found two men holding his head. He breathed but never moved or spoke.William Laity I am a retired farmer, and live at Marazion. At a quarter past four on Saturday afternoon I saw Mr. Semmens standing up by a table at the Fire Eogiue ” inn. I did not soe him drink anything. I had known him 43 years, and he shook hands with me and was quite merry. He asked me to have something to drink, but I declined. 1 saw that he had been drinking, though he was not at all druok, and 1 said I have to fetch the cows. In a friendly way he caugi t hold of me by the collar, and said ** You are not going vet!” Just then I got away, ran out of the room, and closed the door. Half-an-hour afterwards I saw him lying on his back on the road and helped to put him in a cart.—P. C. Oliver It has been rumoured that this witness said he did not consider Mr. Semmens fit to go on horse-back.—Witness:* Deceased had boen drinking, but I never saw him intoxicated, and if the horse had not been so spirited I should have considered it quite safe for him to ride home. He was a little funny and merry, but he was not so druuk but that he might ride. I have not said that he was unfit to ride home ; I should think that he might do so, yet It struck me that he was a little tipsy, and that it was better he had been put home in some conveyance, u,. aaa nnt rmhlinir alinnt— The DoROXKR Hail I hpfhruu'ht it. vprv
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Cornwall Cornishman
Cornwall, South West England, GB
Thu, Nov 08, 1883
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