Visitor’s Fatal Fall at Shaldon: A Dangerous Practice: An inquiry was held by Mr. G. F. Kellock (deputy coroner), of Totnes, at the Town Hall, Teignmouth, touching on the death of Edgar Candy, aye 27, a civil engineer, of Balham, London. S.W. who died at the Hospital on Saturday’ morning from injuries sustained in a fall from the roundabouts at Sheldon Regatta. Evidence of identification having been given by a brother of the deceased, Frank P. Candy, a sanitary engineer – William Henry Pinsent, brewer, Newton Abbot. described the accident. Deceased, he said, was sitting with his back to the horse’s head on the roundabout, when he slipped and fell, apparently in the act of turning round. … … The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental Death” …
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GRO0897 Devonport: William Henry Pinsent: 1874 – 1949