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A Painful Case
Halpin,assistanthousesurgeonoftheCityofDublinHospital,statedthatthedeceasedhadtwolowerribsfracturedandhadsustainedseverecontusionsoftherightshoulder.Therightsideoftheheadhadbeeninjuredinthefall.Theinjurieswerenotsufficienttohavecauseddeathinanormalperson.Death,inhisopinion,hadbeenprobablyduetoshockandsuddenfailureoftheheart’saction.
Mr.H.B.PattersonFinlay,onbehalfoftherailwaycompany,expressedhisdeepregretattheaccident.Thecompanyhadalwaystakeneveryprecautiontopreventpeoplecrossingthelinesexceptbythebridges,bothbyplacingnoticesineverystationandbytheuseofpatentspringgatesatlevelcrossings.Thedeceasedhadbeeninthehabitofcrossingthelineslateatnightfromplatformtoplatformand,inviewofcertainothercircumstancesofthecase,hedidnotthinktherailwayofficialsweretoblame.
CaptainSinico,ofLeoville,SydneyParade,husbandofthedeceased,alsogaveevidence.Hestatedthatthedeceasedwashiswife.HewasnotinDublinatthetimeoftheaccidentashehadarrivedonlythatmorningfromRotterdam.Theyhadbeenmarriedfortwenty-twoyearsandhadlivedhappilyuntilabouttwoyearsagowhenhiswifebegantoberatherintemperateinherhabits.
MissMarySinicosaidthatoflatehermotherhadbeeninthehabitofgoingoutatnighttobuyspirits.She,witness,hadoftentriedtoreasonwithhermotherandhadinducedhertojoinaLeague.
