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You know how Isabella alone appeared at the inquest, and how Selina really my aunt pretended to be sick. Then the two went abroad and came back; Emilia as Miss Loach went to Rose Cottage, and Isabella married Mr. Saxon." "But why did Emilia take Selina's name and " "Because Emilia was in danger of being arrested along with her mother and brother for coining. You could not have saved her.
And this simply because no one seemed to know what it is to be "in charge," or who was in charge. Nay more, the jury at the inquest actually altogether ignored the same, and apparently considered the tap "in charge," for they gave as a verdict "accidental death." This is the meaning of the word, on a large scale.
Turning the body over to the trembling Ira, he saddled his horse and galloped to Lowville for assistance. These facts were fully established at the hurried inquest which met that day. There was no need to go behind the evidence of the constable, the only companion of the murdered man and first discoverer of the body.
McKeon agreed, at the instigation of her husband and the priest, to accompany Feemy to the inquest, and after it was over to bring her to her own house, and to allow her to remain there till something should be definitely arranged as to her future residence.
Falloden, now that the immediate pressure of his own tragedy was relaxed, perceived the change even more sharply than he had done at the inquest; perceived it, at first with horror, and then with a wild sense of recoil and denial, as though some hovering Erinys advanced with Radowitz over the leaf-strewn grass. Radowitz grew paler still as he reached Connie.
The county coroner had got a jury of the neighbours impanelled together; who, after sitting patiently on the inquest, and hearing, as well as seeing, the following evidence, could arrive at no verdict more specific than the obvious fact, that the poor old creature had been "found dead."
"My dear madam," said the foreman of the inquest a courtly disciple of the old school of manner, and phraseology as the august body of freeholders parted to either side to leave her a passage-way to the fireplace "your husband is a happy man, and his wife should be a happy woman in having won the affection of such a model of chivalry" stating succinctly the late proof the "model" had offered to an admiring world of his chivalric principles.
Its movement is often thick, its wings often gummed and heavy. Its scheme and machinery are promising: a philosophical coroner, holding his inquest over the body of a girl found mysteriously dead, undertakes to trace the mystery not only to its immediate cause but up to its primary source and out to its remotest consequences.
Harry said it almost petulantly. "I did n't even know she " "Oyez, oyez, oyez!" It was the bailiff, using a regular district-court introduction of the fact that an inquest was about to be held. The crowded room sighed and settled. The windows became frames for human faces, staring from without. The coroner stepped forward.
Further, there are no indications of a robbery having been attempted." "I happen to know more than any one else about this matter," Nigel urged, "more, even, than I thought it advisable to mention at the inquest and I beg you to listen to me, Mr. Mervin Brown.
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