This was an enquiry into the circum: stances attending the doathof RL, Lew of the rican 8.v. ko Head, who dead body was found in the Huan River at 940 a.tn, on the Yth instant.
CP. Larsson, chief ollicer of the s. v. Koko Head, sworn, the deceased fell overboard from the ship last Friday when trying to get a chain sling loose from a log that was lying alongside the ship. A Chinese called out to the donkeymau to heave away and the deceased was knocked overboant by the fall that was close to Ho wa anding on 0 to the fall, Witness was the time, On hearing shout, ho ran aft, but all that he could see' was the head and hands of deceased, who had been carried underneath a raft of logs. The tide was runing very quickly at the time and the body was carried away. The deceased was ubout 26 years of ago and ped as a sailor at Portland, Oregon.
ess kiver nothing of his family. The ident happened about 3.19 pau. on lay last. The logs had been heaved out from the hold and were lying in the river alongside the ship.
H. Luhrs, a German, sworn, anid ho had been a sailor on the Koko Hend about three months. He saw the deceased fall overboard. Beand deceased wore both on the rail together. Deceased was trying to clear a sling when a Chinese muted out " Go ahead " and the donkeygine was started. Deceased was knocked overboard and witness fell on to the deck.
Witness saw the body floating la the iver, face downwards, on Sunday. The sling was clear of the log when the deceased fell into the siver. here were life buoys on deck, but none were thrown to the deceased.
River Constable W. G. Banks, sworn, id that about 9.40 a.m. on the Sth inst, the body "f the deco sed fi ating in the river opposite the Suy Clee Cotton Mill. It was tied to a "bamboo po'e. Witness telephoned to the Mortuary and had the body removed there. The soco otlicer wf the s.v. Koko Herd was in a sampan with witness at the time and he thought the body was that of Levi He went on board the ship and reporied that the body had be: found.
Captain Edvardsen, of the s.v. Koko dhe saw the boily float-on Sunday and recognised of Lewis. He did not see the face then, as it was floating face downwards.
The jury viewed the body and then returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death on the 7th of July between 3 and 4 p.m. by drowning, he having cidentally fallen overboard from the American 8.y, Koko Hea
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