It is rare, but sometimes the inscription on a gravestone gets it wrong. I have no idea why - it could be bad spelling or writing on the instructions to the mason. It could be a name misheard. I am quite sure that the man buried under the gravestone with "James Logie" on it is James Logan, carter, possibly from Australia.
INQUEST.
An inquest was held at Hospital at noon to-day on the body of one James Logan, who died at the Hospital last evening. The jury having been sworn, and Mr John Gray chosen foreman,
The Coroner (Mr T. M. Hocken) said that deceased, a wharfinger, was killed very suddenly on the previous day. There were two accounts as to the death — the one that the horse fell on him, the other that it crushed him. It was for the jury to ascertain the cause of death and to determine whether the horse was vicious and was unsafe to be given to deceased. Of course if such was the case the owner was to blame.
The jury haying viewed the body, the following evidence was given: —
Andrew Millar, carter, living in Stafford street: I have known deceased for the last ten years. He was about 54 years of age, unmarried, a native of Ireland, and a drayman. Was a Roman Catholic, had a brother on Sydney diggings and a married sister in Geelong. About twenty-five minutes past six last evening I saw him taking a horse out of a dray at Tomlinson’s Victoria Stables. One Woodburn was helping him on the off side, deceased being on the near side. The horse had been working on the wharf for the last six years. Saw the horse jam deceased; it knocked him up against the stable sidle. He recovered himself and then tried to get hold of the horse, but while doing so his feet caught the dray, and he fell across the shafts of the dray, the horse falling on him. I assisted in getting him up, when he said his heart was broken. Dr. Borrows, who was passing, said he was badly hurt, and should be taken to the Hospital. We took him there in a spring-cart; he seemed to get better on the way. He looked very pale and bad. After reaching the Hospital he was attended to by Dr. Yates. He was sensible till placed on the stretcher in the ward. He was quite sober at the time of the accident. The horse was very quiet and safe to drive. Deceased has been, driving it for the last six or seven years.
James Woodburn gave similar evidence. The horse was a perfectly safe one.
Dr Yates said that deceased was admitted into the Hospital. at about seven o’clock last evening. He was gasping, speechless, and apparently dying. He lived only about five minutes after witness examined him. Saw no bruises at the time. Had not examined the body since. Had no doubt that the death was caused by rupture produced by the horse falling on him.
A verdict of "Accidental death” was returned, in accordance with the Coroner’s instructions. -Evening Star, 26/3/1874.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
THE Friends of the late James Logan are respectfully invited to follow his remains from my residence, Hope street, to the place of interment in the Roman Catholic Cemetery South, on Sunday, the 29th inst., at 2 p.m.
DAVID TAYLOR, Undertaker, Hope street. -Evening Star, 28/3/1874.
Southern Cemetery, Dunedin.
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