(ifed ina Int accident Oct, 22.
'A verdict of death by misadventure was delivered by HM. Coroner, Mr.
HI Haines, in HM. Police Court yesterday afternoon at. the close of the "adjourned inquest on. Mihan Singh, on Indian watchman who was killed' ina lift accident on October 14. In arriving at his verdict the Coroner said:
is dimeult to know exactly what happened, but it seems to me that it must have been something like this:
must have taken the Iift to go to the the deceased before going on duty top of the building at 190 Bubbling Well Road and on the way down thad stuck near the third floor. There is hho evidence to suggest why it should have stuck.
"Deceased, an elderly man, placed a stool on the floor outside, and stepped. on the stool. The unfortunate Hit shat a man somehow tumbled down the open
"L. see mo reason for suggesting anything besides a very unfortunate accident and so my formal finding is that: "Mihan "Singh, "son of Banal died at 160, Bubbling Well fon, October 14, the cause of death being fracture of skull and hhemmorhage as the result of falling from the third floor down. the lift shaft of 199 Bubbling Well, Road, Shanghai, aforesaid, and finally, that death was due to misadventure.*
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