Fatalities at Shaldon Regatta: Visitor’s Fatal Fall from a Round-about: G. Kellock, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at Teignmouth Monday, touching the death of Mr. Edgar Candy, aged 27 years, a civil engineer, of Balham, London, who died as the result of injuries sustained in a fall from a roundabout at Shaldon Regatta. Frank Pullin Candy, sanitary engineer, of Redhill, Surrey, identified the deceased as his brother. He last saw him alive last Friday, when he said he was going to see his friends at Shaldon. That was about 3.0 p.m. William Henry Pinsent, brewer, of Newton, said the deceased was riding on Hancock’s steam horses, when he saw him fall backwards into the road. The horses were then stopped, and the witness found that Mr. Candy was unconscious. A doctor was sent for, and the deceased was removed to the hospital in Teignmouth. At the time Mr. Candy was sitting with his back towards the horse’s head, and he (witness) thought that he tried to turn around, and, in doing so, he fell off. That was about 10.30 p.m. William James Davis, solicitor’s clerk, of Teignmouth, said he was with Mr. Candy at Shaldon, but he did not see the accident, although he saw Mr. Candy lying on the ground. When Mr. Pinsent told him there had been an accident, he got off the horse, and helped to take the body into the garden. George Down said he travelled with Messrs. Hancock’s shows and on Friday evening Mrs. Hancock told him to tell Mr. Candy to catch hold tight or else he might fall off. Coastguard Charles Wyatt of Shaldon, stated that he loosened the deceased’s clothing, and did all possible until the doctor arrived. Mr. Ernest E. C. Price, house surgeon at Teignmouth Hospital said he treated the deceased for concussion of the brain. He died about 4.45 on the Saturday morning, having never regained consciousness. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and on returning announced that they had come to the conclusion that the deceased met his death accidentally by falling off the roundabouts. They added, as a rider, that they considered the practice of allowing persons to stand on the sides of the roundabouts, or to sit in wrong positions on the horses whilst in motion, was unsafe, and that their rider should be taken as a caution to all proprietors of roundabouts.
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GRO0897 Devonport: William Henry Pinsent: 1874 – 1949