inquested

Updated: May 5, 2025

This girl remembered how she used to watch this tattooed woman going up and down on Brummy's arm when he was working in the saw-pit going up and down and up and down, like this, while Brummy was working his end of the saw. So the bushranger was inquested and justifiable-homicided as Brummy Usen, and buried again in his dust and blood stains and monkey-jacket.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils

'I be too tired to go readin' papers of evenin's; but Dockett he told me, that very week, I think, that they'd inquested on a man down at Robertsbridge which had poked and poked up agin' so many bridges an' banks, like, they couldn't make naun out of him. 'An' what did Mary say to all these doin's? When we come in she was upstairs studyin' to be a school-teacher. None told her naun about it.

Rudyard Kipling - A Diversity of Creatures