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aiierwarug i mui ijiug on ms uu me ruau *uu ueipeu iu puvhim io a cart.—P. C. Olive:r It has been rumoured that thiswitness 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 drunk but that he might ride. I have not said that he was unfit to ride home; I should think that he might do bo, yet It struck me that be was a little tipsy, and that it was better he had been put home in some conveyance. He was not rambling about.-The Corokkk said he thought it very material to know whether deceased was fit to ride or not.— Witness :—There was a pool of blood where he lay—about a pint. —A juryman observed that the girths were old.Mr. Jame* MudgeI am a surgeon in practice at Marazion. Coming from Perran on Saturday afternoon I met Brewer on horseback. He requested me to come to Fee Mr. Semmens, who had been thrown from his horse in Plain-an-gusrry lane. When I arrived Mr. Semmens was in a cart, which was about to start I at once examined him and found a cut on the right side of the scalp, three inches long, and several minor scratches about the face und head. He was insensible and suffering from concussion of the brain. He had no bones broken. I directed that be should be taken borne at once and returned to my surgery for necessary appliances. I visited him again at his bouse and found him on a sofa in much the same state as when I left him in the lane. I directed a method of treatment and left word to be called should any change occur. I was fetched at five the next morning. Mr. Semmens had rallied from the concussion but was still very ill, probably from extravasation of blood on the brain. Then I arranged for my father to see him with me, at 10 o’clock. We visited him togetherseveral times. He gradually sank and died yesterday.—By the Coroner :—From the first I bad very faint hopes of hisrecovery. He died of hemorrhage on the brain, the result of a f'*11. It is impossible for me to say that he was drunk. If so that might have accelerated death, because a drunken man’s blood-vessels and brain are full of blood. But this accident might have happened to a sober man. He bad drank something, but for any smell you could perceive he might only have had a glass of ale. I could not detect what he had tuken by the smell.Mr. G. Laity Donald Me. Carthy never drank anything iu his life and he was thrown from my horse wiihin 10 yards of that place and killed on the spot.Mr. Mudge:—In ail probability if you opened Mr.C^mm/o.p’n kna/4 (mil nriMild timl n /»!nf f\( Klmid Q 1 I AVOF
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Cornwall Cornishman
Cornwall, South West England, GB
Thu, Nov 08, 1883
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