A verdict of accidental death was returned at a City Coroner’s inquest yesterday in the case of Charles Stewart, a butcher, aged about, 37 years, resident at Thornville, Rutland avenue, Dolphin’s Barn, who died on 19th inst. in Steevens’ Hospital. Deceased’s sister stated that he told her he had’ fallen in the Corporation Abattoir, N. C. road, and had his head cut, on 5th inst. On the 6th he was at work as usual. “Larry next morning she found him in the kitchen in a demented slate; as she thought, and Dr. Redmond., of Berkeley street, ordered hint to hospital. Horace Furness,” Talbot street, who stated Stewart was an assistant in his (witness’s) father’s victualler shop, added that he had taken some drink, and that, while, in one of the slaughterhouses, he began to sing and dance, and fell, his head striking the concrete floor. Witness and others placed him on a table, and he recovered in a few moments, when he said he was all right. The fall was purely accidental. Dr. G. Pepper, house surgeon, Steevens” Hospital, ‘ attributed death to hemorrhage following laceration, of the brain and fracture of the.skull.
– Irish Independent 1905-current, Thursday, January 22, 1914; Page: 6