Word: inquest
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...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...
Here was news, news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...passengers was a Dr. Albert Voss, dentist, of Manchester. At a coroner's inquest into his death last week, the story of the disaster became stranger than ever. The body of Dr. Voss was picked up nearly two miles from the wreckage of the plane. It was not burned. Evidence seemed to show that Dr. Voss jumped from the plane. Though his 16-year-old niece Lottie was one of the killed passengers, there was a possibility that he might have set the plane afire...
...Chaplain Kinsolving will take office as soon as the War Department accepts his resignation. West Point's most striking memory of him will likely be a recent one. The sexton hanged himself in the gallery of the West Point Chapel. Few days later, during a lull in the inquest, the presiding officer said to Chaplain Kinsolving: "I hope you like the new man I sent you to take the late sexton's place." "Yes, I liked him very much," replied Chaplain Kinsolving in all innocence. ''I showed him all the ropes...
...placed in the sweatbox followed his fourth break for freedom. He was not wearing the barrel, but his neck was chained to the roof. His feet were nailed down in heavy stocks. When he was found dead a justice of the peace directed that there be no inquest. The Press stirred up a fury of public indignation over the affair. County Detective Gasque investigated. Murder indictments were returned against Acting Guard Captain George W. Courson, a 285-lb. hulker, and Solomon Higginbotham, his assistant. Their trial concluded last week at Jacksonville...