William Lloyd, Free Settler “Reward” 1844

On Friday, at the Mount Side Hotel, Buninyong, Dr Clendinning held an inquest on the body of William Lloyd, whose death, according to the evi- dence and the verdict of the jury, took place on the day previous at Toll Bar Flat, near Buninyong, and was caused by fracture of his skull and other injuries caused by being accidentally struck by a branch falling from the tree which the deceased was at the same time felling, on the same day and at the same place. John Harlett, a carter in the employ of Mr Bishop, proprietor of the Buninyong Saw Mill, de- posed that the deceased was employed in falling logs for the same mill. Both were on the Toll Bar Flat on Thursday morning. The deceased had assisted witness to put a log on the carriage, when he noticed that the deceased had a tree felled which had caught in another tree whilst falling. While witness was there the deceased felled the tree that sustained the other, and both falling together they struck a third, and tore down a great number of its branches. The two trees came down to the ground. Witness then went off with his load, but the deceased desired him to come back to the same place for an- other load. Witness delivered his load at the saw mill stage, and went straight back, having been ab- sent an hour or little more. When he reached the place there was no sign of the deceased, whereupon witness cracked his whip three or four times, but no one replied. He then got up on the log which the deceased had cut, and on looking round saw his hat, and immediately afterwards deceased himself. He was lying face downwards with his chest on the branch, and his head turned sideways. There was a great quantity of blood on the grass which ap- parently came from his face. His feet were a few feet from the tree at which he had evidently been working. It was the tree from which the branches had been torn, and it was more than half cut through. He was quite dead. The witness and a man named John Evans remained by the body until Mr Bishop and Dr Rankin's assistant came up. Witness never saw the deceased otherwise than sober at his work. John Evans deposed that the deceased must have been struck by two falling branches-his head was on one, and the other was lying a few feet off.

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