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  • The city convened a coroner's inquest, which focused its attention on the building's design.†   (source)
  • Yeah, as exciting as a coroner's inquest.†   (source)
  • Inquests of stunning objectivity were held and Annie learned for the first time how facts could be so subtly rearranged to render different truths.†   (source)
  • Until the hearing or inquest or whatever it is they have to hold.†   (source)
  • Since I did not have the courage to quit, my time in the system became an inquest into the nature of aggrieved innocence.†   (source)
  • It is a NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men.†   (source)
  • He wasn't even a witness at the inquest.†   (source)
  • At the inquest the Coroner exonerated me.   (source)
    inquest = formal investigation
  • After all, people don't like a Coroner's Inquest, even if the Coroner did acquit me of all blame!   (source)
  • For an inquest it couldn't have gone better.   (source)
  • When Michaelis's testimony at the inquest brought to light Wilson's suspicions of his wife I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade — but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.   (source)
  • The question of an inquest had to be considered, and it would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe it.   (source)
    inquest = formal investigation into a death
  • I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did.   (source)
  • The greatest interest, however, is with regard to the paper found in the bottle, which was today produced at the inquest.   (source)
  • In case the coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest, necessarily to the same result.   (source)
    inquest = investigation of a death
  • It is needless to say that the dead steersman has been reverently removed from the place where he held his honourable watch and ward till death, a steadfastness as noble as that of the young Casabianca, and placed in the mortuary to await inquest.   (source)
    inquest = formal investigation into a death
  • Clarence Darrow entered the case and in a novel maneuver won for Prendergast a sanity inquest.†   (source)
  • The next thing, Sir, was the Inquest, which was held very soon after we were brought back.†   (source)
  • "All the news reports and the inquest said it was," I said tonelessly, "But they were wrong.†   (source)
  • Grace appears to have told one story at the inquest, another one at the trial, and, after her death sentence had been commuted, yet a third.†   (source)
  • ENGLAND 1995 From the West London Post, 12th May 1995 TRAGIC DEATH OF WAR HERO An inquest yesterday recorded an open verdict on a man who died after falling from the balcony of his sixth-floor flat.†   (source)
  • A coroner's inquest has returned a verdict of accidental death in last week's St. Clair Ave. fatality.†   (source)
  • Nothing about the manner of her death, which everyone in this town believes — despite the verdict at the inquest — was as close to suicide as damn is to swearing.†   (source)
  • At the inquest that followed a young man named Elvet Moorman testified he had helped Holmes set up a large woodstove in the house.†   (source)
  • Then, at the inquest, she said she suspected Nancy was dead and in the cellar, though she hadn't seen her put there.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hyde told the inquest that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marijke Hyde, currently in a nursing home, had been diagnosed as suffering from a degenerative mental illness and that Mr. Hyde had "coped very badly" with the situation.†   (source)
  • The coroner immediately convened an inquest, during which a jury heard testimony from Daniel Burnham; Frank Burnham; officials of Hercules Iron Works; and various firemen.†   (source)
  • When McDermott asserted that Grace helped him in his strangling escapade, he may very well have got the idea from the Kingston Chronicle and Gazette, which proposed it as fact, even before there was an inquest.†   (source)
  • Well, Sir, I will continue — the day of the Inquest came, and I took care to appear neat and tidy, for I knew how much appearances count, as when you are applying for a new position, and they always look at your wrists and cuffs, to see if you are of clean habits; and they did say in the newspapers that I was decently dressed.†   (source)
  • The Inquest was held in the City Hall, with a number of Magistrates present, all staring and frowning; and an immense crowd of spectators, and Press men, pushing and shoving and jostling, so as to be in a better position to see and hear; and these had to be reprimanded several times, for disruption.†   (source)
  • V. R. Ashton and S. Donnan, "Suicide by burning as an epidemic phenomenon: An analysis of 82 deaths and inquests in England and Wales in i978-79.†   (source)
  • I must say, Sybil, that when this comes out at the inquest, it isn't going to do us much good.†   (source)
  • This doctor, now, he gave evidence at the inquest?†   (source)
  • They said I must come to the inquest-that's on Monday, sir.†   (source)
  • You"ll have to go back to the inquest this afternoon."†   (source)
  • There won't be any difficulty at the inquest.†   (source)
  • He had completely forgotten Bessie during the inquest of Mary.†   (source)
  • I'll keep the technicalities for the inquest.†   (source)
  • I read in the paper the account of the inquest.†   (source)
  • Too bad fainting like that at the inquest this afternoon.†   (source)
  • He understood now" it was the inquest he had been taken to.†   (source)
  • She wanted to know when they were holding the inquest, but I told her it had not been settled.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Dalton was led to the stand and she told the same story she had told at the inquest.†   (source)
  • Listen, they"re taking you back to the inquest this afternoon.†   (source)
  • Does he think he can sit back quietly now that sham inquest is over?†   (source)
  • As I said before, I wish I could stop this inquest but I can't.†   (source)
  • SHRINKS AT INQUEST WHEN CONFRONTED WITH BODY OF SLAIN GIRL.†   (source)
  • Somehow, in spite of myself, I found I was coming to the building where the inquest was being held.†   (source)
  • Jan came to the stand and said what he had said at the inquest.†   (source)
  • The jury will believe that at the inquest too.†   (source)
  • After the inquest they"ll take you to the Cook County Jail and I'll be over to talk with you.†   (source)
  • The inquest was to be on the Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.†   (source)
  • The moment the killer made his appearance at the inquest, there were shouts of "Lynch 'im!†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, Max, old chap, I came to congratulate you on the inquest this afternoon.†   (source)
  • The inquest was to be held at Lanyon, the market town six miles the other side of Kerrith.†   (source)
  • Well, I attended that inquest today, as you know.†   (source)
  • However, once the inquest is over you must both forget all about it.†   (source)
  • It seems there is to be an inquest, Madam?†   (source)
  • But I've attended these coroner's inquests before, and it's so easy to get nervy and irritable.†   (source)
  • At the inquest his sister, who lived with him, said he had recently been in ill health and had complained of fits of dizziness.†   (source)
  • There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments--and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too--during the years which led up to this catastrophe.†   (source)
  • Then after your father had shot himself with this pistol, and you had come home from school and they'd had the funeral, the coroner had returned it after the inquest saying, "Bob, I guess you might want to keep the gun.†   (source)
  • There will be a certain amount of unpleasantness but I will have some photographs taken that will be very useful at the inquest.†   (source)
  • You've confessed to theft, and now he knows all about it, and he can bring it out at the inquest, and then if necessary carry it to court.†   (source)
  • The inquest took place two days later.†   (source)
  • The inquest was only this morning.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he was informed that the man had been seen alive ten minutes ago, and so he merely commented at the inquest on the abnormal stiffening of the limbs for which he was quite unable to account!†   (source)
  • "You"re going back to the inquest."†   (source)
  • Bessie's death had not been mentioned during the inquest and all of the white faces in the room were utterly surprised.†   (source)
  • Let me know how the inquest turns out.†   (source)
  • Bigger saw Buckley give her the earring he had seen at the inquest, and the old woman told of how the pair of earrings had been handed down through the years from mother to daughter.†   (source)
  • "slayer will undoubtedly pay supreme penalty for his crimes". there is no doubt of his guilt". what is doubtful is how many other crimes he has committed". killer attacked at inquest".†   (source)
  • What right had he to go to the inquest?†   (source)
  • I wish you could be spared the formality and the publicity of an inquest,' said Colonel Julyan, 'but I'm afraid that's quite impossible.†   (source)
  • The reason why I'm here is that I'm not satisfied with the verdict given at the inquest this afternoon.'†   (source)
  • Some inquest or other, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • I checked and corroborated all the facts which were mentioned at the inquest.†   (source)
  • "But what I want to talk to you about is the inquest," now went on Mason quickly and sharply.†   (source)
  • The verdict at the inquest was "natural suicide."†   (source)
  • Me age come out at a coroner's inquest on me daughter.†   (source)
  • There'd have to be an inquest and I should be blamed for not calling a doctor in.'†   (source)
  • There will have to be an inquest, of course, and you must not be mixed up in it.†   (source)
  • However, even inquests went out of vogue at last, and ceased to torture Tom's conscience.†   (source)
  • The inquest is to take place this afternoon.†   (source)
  • "I warn you that if anything happens to them there'll have to be an inquest.'†   (source)
  • You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded by the surgeon at the inquest.†   (source)
  • There was to be an inquest on Leonard's body to-morrow, and the police required his son to attend.†   (source)
  • I had Earl take down their names and subpoena 'em for the inquest next Monday."†   (source)
  • He only repeated what some fool had said at the inquest.†   (source)
  • Finally he stammered in a stifled voice, "Harry, did you say an inquest?†   (source)
  • We start after the inquest, if she is not too ill.†   (source)
  • But one false statement was made by Barrymore at the inquest.†   (source)
  • It drew attention to the following paragraph:— "INQUEST ON AN ACTRESS.†   (source)
  • It was the best place for her, since she had to wait for the inquest.†   (source)
  • Have you realised what the verdict at the inquest will be?†   (source)
  • However, we shall hear more than enough at the inquest on such unsavoury topics.†   (source)
  • The people repeated the word in astonishment, but Rabbi Joseph pursued his inquest.†   (source)
  • But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess.†   (source)
  • There will have to be an inquest, and she should have waited to know what to do.†   (source)
  • There will be an inquest, and you will be asked the question.†   (source)
  • This was the paragraph: DEATH OF A LADY AT SYDNEY PARADE A PAINFUL CASE Today at the City of Dublin Hospital the Deputy Coroner (in the absence of Mr. Leverett) held an inquest on the body of Mrs. Emily Sinico, aged forty-three years, who was killed at Sydney Parade Station yesterday evening.†   (source)
  • On his way through the village he informed the police, who thanked him, and said there must be an inquest.†   (source)
  • There was no inquest.†   (source)
  • There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the inquest, and which are worth considering.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and thus keeping his trouble present to his mind.†   (source)
  • The icy slope, the turn mistaken at night and in liquor, accounted for much—practically, in the end and after the inquest and boundless chatter, for everything; but there had been matters in his life—strange passages and perils, secret disorders, vices more than suspected—that would have accounted for a good deal more.†   (source)
  • The jury duly came and viewed the bodies, the inquest was held; and next arrived the melancholy morning of the funeral.†   (source)
  • Something sweet), for her husband was horribly mangled, would not recover consciousness, she must not see him, must be spared as much as possible, would have the inquest to go through, poor young woman.†   (source)
  • When the house was silent, and they could do nothing but await the coroner's inquest, a subdued, large, low voice spread into the air of the room from behind the heavy walls at the back.†   (source)
  • The inquest had ended in a verdict of accidental death, caused by the wear and tear of the chains by which the chandelier was hung from the ceiling; but it was the duty of both the old and the new managers to have discovered this wear and tear and to have remedied it in time.†   (source)
  • I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest.†   (source)
  • At the narrow gangway where the people ascended from the riverside path to the bridge the crowd was literally jammed into one hot mass—Arabella and Vilbert with the rest; and here they remained motionless, Arabella exclaiming, "Dear, dear!" more and more impatiently; for it had just occurred to her mind that if Jude were discovered to have died alone an inquest might be deemed necessary.†   (source)
  • That means, though, that the inquest will have to be postponed for a day or two more, till we get these men here.†   (source)
  • He had been careful to begin both of his inquest-statements with the fight, without confessing the grave-robbery that preceded it; therefore it was deemed wisest not to try the case in the courts at present.†   (source)
  • Injun Joe repeated his statement, just as calmly, a few minutes afterward on the inquest, under oath; and the boys, seeing that the lightnings were still withheld, were confirmed in their belief that Joe had sold himself to the devil.†   (source)
  • Under these circumstances the young man was instantly arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes.†   (source)
  • The body of the drowned girl is to be removed to Bridgeburg, the county seat of this county, where an inquest is later to be held.†   (source)
  • I know something, Sir Henry, and perhaps I should have said it before, but it was long after the inquest that I found it out.†   (source)
  • Dorian shook his head and a look of annoyance passed over his face at the mention of the word "inquest."†   (source)
  • "I didn't have time to get a doctor up there and besides I'm going to hold the inquest down here, Monday, if I can.†   (source)
  • Sid noticed that Tom never was coroner at one of these inquiries, though it had been his habit to take the lead in all new enterprises; he noticed, too, that Tom never acted as a witness—and that was strange; and Sid did not overlook the fact that Tom even showed a marked aversion to these inquests, and always avoided them when he could.†   (source)
  • The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.†   (source)
  • He had lost no time, as soon as he discovered there was a possibility of their (Belknap & Jephson) taking over the defense of Clyde, in going over the minutes of the coroner's inquest as well as the doctors' reports and the letters of Roberta and Sondra.†   (source)
  • —An inquest was held this morning at the Bell Tavern, Hoxton Road, by Mr. Danby, the District Coroner, on the body of Sibyl Vane, a young actress recently engaged at the Royal Theatre, Holborn.†   (source)
  • He was also anxious about the future, reflecting that the police must detain Helen and Margaret for the inquest and ferret the whole thing out.†   (source)
  • And then Catchuman having handed over a retainer to Belknap as well as a letter introducing him to Clyde, Belknap had Jephson call up Mason to inform him that Belknap & Jephson, as counsel for Samuel Griffiths on behalf of his nephew, would require of him a detailed written report of all the charges as well as all the evidence thus far accumulated, the minutes of the autopsy and the report of the coroner's inquest.†   (source)
  • After the inquest?†   (source)
  • At the inquest the verdict was suicide.†   (source)
  • My mother wanted to make an officer of me; my father, a sub-deacon; my aunt, a councillor of inquests; my grandmother, prothonotary to the king; my great aunt, a treasurer of the short robe,—and I have made myself an outcast.†   (source)
  • Then came before him the pale and trembling relatives who had told their tale upon the inquest—the shrieks of women—the silent dread of men—the consternation and disquiet—the victory achieved by that heap of clay, which, with one motion of its hand, had let out the life and made this stir among them— He spoke no more; but, after a pause, softly groped his way out of the room, and up the echoing stairs—up to the top—to the front garret—where he closed the door behind him, and remained.†   (source)
  • The Inquest was over, the letter was public, the Bank was broken, the other model structures of straw had taken fire and were turned to smoke.†   (source)
  • On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive always from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery; and a fatal disservice[28] is done.†   (source)
  • I put it on, I remember, for the first time, to attend the inquest on that reduced tradesman, who died in a doorway at midnight.'†   (source)
  • There was to be seen a well-clad yeoman, mounted on a sleek, switchtailed steed, rambling along the highway, with his red face elevated in a manner that said, "I have paid for my land, and fear no man;" while his bosom was swelling with the pride of being one of the grand inquest for the county.†   (source)
  • And the honourable member had so tickled the House (which has a delicate sense of humour) by putting the cap on the cow, that it became impatient of any serious reference to the Coroner's Inquest, and brought the railway off with Cheers and Laughter.†   (source)
  • He gloated over every abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest.†   (source)
  • There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else.†   (source)
  • " "What do you propose to me, d'Avrigny?" said Villefort in despair; "so soon as another is admitted into our secret, an inquest will become necessary; and an inquest in my house—impossible!†   (source)
  • 'The sessions are on,' said Kags: 'if they get the inquest over, and Bolter turns King's evidence: as of course he will, from what he's said already: they can prove Fagin an accessory before the fact, and get the trial on on Friday, and he'll swing in six days from this, by G—!'†   (source)
  • The sheriff was absent, summoning in person the grand inquest for the county; the deputy who resided in the village was riding on the same errand, in a different part of the settlement; and the regular constable of the township had been selected for his station from motives of charity, being lame of a leg.†   (source)
  • They wouldn't be so concerned if she hadn't been noticed in such low spirits these last few days, and Maryann d' think the beginning of a crowner's inquest has happened to the poor girl."†   (source)
  • He had left a letter at the Baths addressed to his physician, and his physician had got the letter, and the letter would be produced at the Inquest on the morrow, and it would fall like a thunderbolt upon the multitude he had deluded.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing—though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm—the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • On reaching the highway they separated, the sheriff to summon twentyfour "good men and true," to attend as the inquest of the county, on the succeeding Monday, when Marmaduke held his stated court of "common pleas and general sessions of the peace," and the Judge to return, musing deeply on what he had seen and heard in the course of the morning.†   (source)
  • Upon which law-writer there was an inquest, and which law-writer was an anonymous character, his name being unknown.†   (source)
  • The house has not done so much in the stomachic article of cloves or in brandy-and-water warm since the inquest.†   (source)
  • He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased.†   (source)
  • It reminded Caddy to tell me as we proceeded upstairs that there had been a sudden death there and an inquest and that our little friend had been ill of the fright.†   (source)
  • Were you examined at an inquest?†   (source)
  • Is much applauded and encouraged; goes out of the room as Swills; comes in as the coroner (not the least in the world like him); describes the inquest, with recreative intervals of piano-forte accompaniment, to the refrain: With his (the coroner's) tippy tol li doll, tippy tol lo doll, tippy tol li doll, Dee!†   (source)
  • …occurring in the first floor of the house occupied as a rag, bottle, and general marine store shop, by an eccentric individual of intemperate habits, far advanced in life, named Krook; and how, by a remarkable coincidence, Krook was examined at the inquest, which it may be recollected was held on that occasion at the Sol's Arms, a well-conducted tavern immediately adjoining the premises in question on the west side and licensed to a highly respectable landlord, Mr. James George Bogsby.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXIII Interlopers Now do those two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons who attended the last coroner's inquest at the Sol's Arms reappear in the precincts with surprising swiftness (being, in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions through the court, and dive into the Sol's parlour, and write with ravenous little pens on tissue-paper.†   (source)
  • That afternoon of the inquest.†   (source)
  • Is it not designed as a method of NATIONAL INQUEST into the conduct of public men?†   (source)
  • So will the coroner's inquest certainly find it; and then you will be easily admitted to bail; and, though you must undergo the form of a trial, yet it is a trial which many men would stand for you for a shilling."†   (source)
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