John DONNELLY

A fatal accident occurred on Tuesday to a carter named John Donnelly, a married man with seven children, living at Navigators.

He was driving a horse and dray towards Ballarat, when he fell on to the

roadway, and one of the wheels passed over him.

 A man named Bartholomew Carr went to the injured man's assistance, but

he succumbed before he could be brought into the hospital.

DONNELLY. — The Friends of the late Mr John Donnelly are respectfully invited to follow his remains to their last resting-place, the Ballarat New Cemetery.

The funeral will leave his late residence, Navigators, on Friday, the 17th inst., at 11 a.m.

Yesterday afternoon Mr Carr, a farmer residing at Lal Lal, was driving along Eureka street, Cremorne, when he saw a cart ahead of him laden with chips, the driver being seated on his load.

As Carr neared the vehicle the horse drawing it broke into a trot and then

into a gallop, and a moment after Carr saw the driver fall off the cart on to the road.

Realising that the man was evidently badly hurt, Carr summoned assistance from the Cremorne hotel, and the sufferer was removed there, and a cab sent for to bring him to the Ballarat Hospital, but before the cab arrived he had died.

 The body was brought to Ballarat, and taken to the City Morgue, where it

was subsequently identified as that of John Donnelly, a purveyor of chip’s, who resided at Navigators.

 The coroner had been communicated with, and a post mortem will be held

to-day. This is the third fatal accident that has happened to wood carters under almost identical circumstances within the past week.

Yesterday Mr G. King, J.P., held a magisterial enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of the man John Donnelly, who was killed on Tuesday in Eureka street, Cremorne, through his horse bolting.

Mary Donnelly, widow of deceased, identified deceased as her husband, and gave his age as 52 years.

 On the day of his death he left his, home, sober and in good health.

Benjamin Cahir, farmer, of Lal Lal, deposed that on Tuesday, at about 3 o’clock, he saw deceased get into his cart opposite the Cremorne hotel and drive off.

The horse first trotted and then galloped, and deceased fell off the vehicle on to the road.

Witness hastened to his assistance, and with the help of a bystander lifted him into his own vehicle with a view of taking him to the Hospital, but he died on the way and was then, taken to the morgue.

When witness picked deceased up the latter said,

“Your name is Cahir, I’m all right. Let me sit up,I am choking.”

No one came from the hotel to assist witness, though several people were appealed to.

The landlord, Mr Beckman; was absent.

The inquest was adjourned to secure the attendance of the people referred to—Annie Beckman and a miner ' named Ballenger, who gave sufficient reasons for not going to the man’s assistance.

Dr Martin, certified that the cause of death' was rupture of the spleen, causing excessive internal bleeding and a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony.