Sad Death of Mr. E. H. Carter: The report, which early on Wednesday morning, was spread throughout the town that Mr. E. Harold Carter, J. P. of Rosemount had been drowned in Keeper’s Pool in Sutton Park was received by all classes with a feeling approaching almost to consternation … … An enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. Carter was held at the late residence of the deceased. Rouse Mount, the Driffold, on Thursday Afternoon before Dr. C. W. Iliffe, District Coroner, and a jury composed of the following gentlemen … T. Siviter Smith of Birmingham, attended on behalf of the family of the deceased … (description of financial dealing & suicide) ... the Jury immediately returned a verdict in accordance with the coroner’s summing up.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948