VPRS 24/PO
Unit 38
Item 151
Jane Elizabeth Tait
31 Oct 1856
Inquest on the body of Jane Elizabeth Tait
Injury to the brain on 31st from the wheel of a dray having accidentally passed over her head on Wednesday
Robert Fawcett
Corn???
On Wednesday last about four o’clock pm I was standing at the door of Mr Barnett’s house on the Eureka road. I heard a cry and in looking saw the deceased lying on the ground and the wheel of a dray just about going over the head of the deceased. The driver of the dray … made every possible exertion to pull in his horse and prevent the accident. The dray was not loaded and was going slowly at the time. I saw the deceased taken up by a woman and carried to her parent’s tent and she lived until this morning. I hear that she died about eight o’clock am that day.
Robert Fawcett
Dinah Davis
31 Oct
On Wed last about 4 o’clock pm I head some person calling out to mind the child and on looking I saw a drayman pulling up his horse and the deceased was running as if staggering towards the dray and she was knocked down and the wheel of the dray etc.
Dinah Davis xxx her mark
Samuel Chaplin
Licentiate of apothecaries of London
