MR. RESIDENT PRYER AND A GROUP OF NATIVE INHABITANTS OF SANDAKAN.
be of great value, and bis name will be attached to.
the first correct chart of the Kinabatangan River.
“ I have the honour to be, sir,
“ Your most obedient servant,
“ (Signed) W . B. P ryer,
“ Resident.
“ His Excellency,
“ The Hon. W. H, Treacher, .
“ Governor of Sabah.”
Elopura, March Mh, 1883
INQUEST INTO DEATH OE FEANK HATTON.
Messrs. Little, Cook, Sampson, Wickham, Kossell, Collinson, Pen-
don, McLean, Neubronner, Wait, De Lissa; Allen. Mr. Collinson
agreed to as foreman.
Jury sworn in.
D b . W a l k e r (sworn) says :—About 1 a.m. this morning was
called and told that Mr. Hatton was dead; Saw him in a
gobang. Examined the body and found wound under the right
collar-bone below middle of bone.; in turning over body, there was
one opening about, half an inch from spine, opposite the lower third
of shoulder-blade; the former named was evidently the entrance, thè
latter the exit, of a bullet. The' wound was evidently that of a
bullet. Seemed to be light traces of burning near former wound, as
though the gun had been very close. ; The wound was such as might
have been made by cartridge (produced). I examined gun (produced)
and find it covered with mud, about one-third of an inch
of dried mud stopping up muzzle. I removed cartridges ; find
seven all loaded ; no discharged cartridge. Gun dirty, and had
evidently been fired recently. Body very much decomposed.
Examined coat of deceased ; so much coated with blood, impossible
to say whether it had been singed by the discharge or not ; seems
blackened, but it is impossible to say whether dried blood or not ;
coat had been washed at the time I examined it.
Cross-examined by Mr. de Lissa :—There was a hole in both coat
and singlet.