THE SOUTHPORT VISITER, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1897.

A BLOWICK MAN’S UNFORTUNATE END.

FATAL FALL.
Mr. S. Brighouse, coroner, conducted an inquiry in No. 2 Court-room at the Town Hall, yesterday, relative to the death of an old man named Robert Edmondson, who met with a fall near his home in Norwood-road, about a week ago, and died, as was supposed, partly from the results of the fall on Saturday. In opening the inquiry, the Coroner said that Dr. Storrs, who had attended the deceased, gave in the certificate to the registrar the primary cause of death to be senile decay, and the words, “accelerated by an accident in the street.” The registrar had very properly refused to register the death, because, if death has been accelerated by the fall, it was the fall which was the direct cause of death.

Alice Edmondson, the daughter of the deceased, said the latter lived with her in Norwood-road, Southport, and was a labourer under the Corporation. His age last birthday was 78. On Monday last he went out, and shortly afterwards he was brought back by some men, and he told her he had become dizzy, and had fallen down. She called in the doctor on the following day, but the deceased only lived until Saturday.

Joseph T. King said he saw the deceased on the previous Monday morning crossing a field opposite his shop in Sussex-road. He seemed to be seized with giddiness, and turned round, and then fell on to the back of his head very heavily.

The jury briefly consulted about their verdict, and the Foreman then said they had come to the conclusion that death was accidental.