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Li, V. UUl ' ^ m- y if I i • A i . * V • flllJLV* 1 dUUUVlVWood, n.BOYS BODY EXHUMED.REMARKABLE EVIDENCE AT THEINQUEST.Remarkable evidence was given uii Saturday at the adjourned inquest regarding the death of John Spencer Crozier, Id, tlie eldest sou of Mr. J. (J. Crozier, J.P., formerly High Sheriff of County Fermanagh, which was held at (iorta, near Newtonbutler. The boy was discovered dead on the floor of his bed-room on October 'J% and it had been originally decided not to hold an inquest, but a post mortem examination was made immediately before the funeral, and a week after the body had been interred it was exhumed and some ol the organs were sent to Dublin for analysis.Helena Crozier, aged 1 1, sister of the dead vonth, who was removed to the county infirmary by the police after her brother's death, stated that she was not aware until that day that her brother was dead. To her he had always appeared to be in perfectly good health, and she did not see him with a black eye or a bruise or cut. He had never complained of having been beaten. She ami her brother were forbidden by their stepmother to speak to the men in fhe fields.The father of Hie dead youth, who was told by the coroner that, he need not give evidence unless lie liked, said that the reason he put a mattress on the floor for the bov the night before he died was that the lad’s leg was very stiff. It was beside the mattress that he found the boy’s dead body. He carried the body upstairs to another room because lie did not wish it to be talked about that the boy had been sleeping in a bedroom which had been used by the servants.The District Inspector.—It was rather unusualand peculiar for a man to carry the body of It is son to another room himself, blit, of course, theleason you give is all right, and explains thematter.Dr. Fitzgerald said that in conjunction withDr. Henry lie made u post mortem examination. The body was emaciated, with the bones almost cutting the skin. There were two abrasions ofthe skin on the first and second knuckles of fhe right hand, three abrasions of the cuticle on fhe right side of the neck, and a linear scrape on the M’t side of the neck. He was of the opinion that death was due to emaciation caused by aninsufficiency of proper food.Mr. Crozier.—Do you mean that death was due to insufficient quantity or quality of food?—Insufficient quality.The jury returned a verdict in accordance wTiththe medical evidence.
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London Standard
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Oct 21, 1912
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