NEWTON ABBOT. Inquest: An inquest was held on Saturday evening, before A. Cockey, Esq., coroner, at Avery’s Turk’s Head Inn, on the body of Walter Hunt, who died from injuries received about a fortnight since. From the evidence a man named Williams, it appeared that deceased was coming down from Lundridge Hill, Bishopsteignton, where he had been with a horse and wagon to deliver some goods for his master (Mr. J. Pinsent, brewer), when the shaft struck the horse in the head, owing, witness considered, to its not having a belly-tie; and the horse sprang off at a great rate. Witness was thrown back in the cart, but the deceased was thrown out; the wheel ran over his legs, which were broken and much injured. He lingered until Friday night, when he expired. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901