A DANGEROUS PRACTICE: Visitor Killed Shaldon. Yesterday 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, age 27, a civil engineer, of Balham, London, S.W., whose death occurred Teignmouth on Shaldon Regatta Day under circumstances already reported. The deceased accompanied William Henry Pinsent, brewer, of Newton Abbot, and William James Davis, solicitor’s clerk, of Teignmouth, to Shaldon Regatta. They went on the roundabouts, Candy getting on the outside “horse.” He sat with his back to the “horse’s” head, and while going round apparently attempted to turn round, and fell into the road. He was subsequently taken to the Teignmouth Infirmary in an unconscious condition, and found by Mr. Ernest E. C. Price, the house surgeon, was found to be suffering from concussion of the brain, and from these injuries he succumbed. The coroner said the deceased seemed to have been riding in a very loose way, and there was a question as to whether it was right for the roundabout to continue while the deceased was in that unsafe condition. The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” adding a rider to the effect that the practice of permitting persons to stand on the -platform or sit in wrong positions on the horses while the machine was in motion was very unsafe.
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GRO0897 Devonport: William Henry Pinsent: 1874 – 1949