Squire Heathcote was said to be the best coroner who had filled that office at Bodmin within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
We are keeping them up rather late," said the Coroner apologetically.
Yet theCoroner found himself dwelling upon this wild fancy, painful as it was to him to harbour any evil thought of Dora Wyllard's kinsman.
As coroner and as lawyer, Mr. Heathcote had made up his mind more than an hour ago that the girl lying at the Vital Spark had been murdered.
The Coroner handed the basket to the jury, who examined the contents curiously.
Between them Wyllard and the Coroner had contrived to put the London lawyer in full possession of the facts relating to the girl's death.
The lady is Hilda Heathcote, sister of Mr. Heathcote, thecoroner for Cornwall.
The children was sent to the workus, and the coroner held his inquest this afternoon at three.
You will be wanted afore thecoroner as well as the magistrate.
As the lawyer resumed his seat with that sardonic smile upon his lips, the coroner picked up the handkerchief.
I saw the look of disgust with which various of the members of the jury favored Orton, and even the coroner was impressed to the point of laying the letter aside and resuming his attack upon a different line.
As the coronerheld up the dainty trifle the young man started and with a quick indrawn breath he leaned closer to examine it.
I think thecoroner was afraid he was going to divulge its contents, for he interposed hurriedly, "Did anyone else know that the pistol was kept in this table drawer?
By the time the coroner repeated his question she had made up her mind.
The coroner laid the two articles upon the table and bent a flashing look upon her.
The coroner shrugged, having won the battle by creating just the impression that he desired, namely that the handkerchief was Ruth's and that for some reason Lee was trying to protect her.
Evidently Coroner Graves (I obtained this information from the man beside me) intended to spare her as much as possible, for which consideration I thanked him from the bottom of my heart.
This is a mere formality," responded thecoroner affably, whereat the lawyer smiled, rather sardonically, I thought.
Kindly tell Jenkins to take this note to Coroner Graves," he said.
He handed it back with a courteous air, but I could not help feeling that somehow he was merely amused by the attempts of the coroner to solve the problem.
When the coroner showed him the handkerchief he was in mortal dread that he would recognize it as hers.
And do you believe for a moment that the district attorney will give credence to a fact which Coroner Graves practically ruled out of his court?
The murmur of approval that followed this act showing in what odium the secretary was held by the servants, made the coroner a little doubtful of his man and more than ever anxious that his statement be properly substantiated.
I felt that death would be a happy release from the cold touch of the amateur coronerand pro tem physician.
I had the misfortune at one time to be under the medical charge of a coronerwho had graduated from a Chicago morgue and practiced medicine along with his inquest business with the most fiendish delight.
The duties of the physician are with the living, those of the coroner with the dead.
Why, this physician plenipotentiary and coroner extraordinary that I have referred to, didn't know when he got a call whether to take his morphine syringe or his venire for a jury.
This coroner had a kind of tread-softly-bow-the-head way of getting around the room that made my flesh creep.
The mechanic and the coroner followed in a small truck.
The body had been placed in the truck, and the coroner and Jones were ready to start off.
With the help of the coronerhe rolled the body onto its back, and made a hasty examination while the white-faced, trembling girls watched from the car.
The coroner and jury assembled; but they could not make more of the matter than we had made.
Knapp, the policeman, and another one standing by his side, peered at Owen from under their eyebrows, as if they did not put implicit faith in his words: and the coroner recalled Matilda Valentine.
The coroner added, on his own account, that he thought the reproof was thoroughly deserved.
He had notified the coroner and taken Travers in charge.
She seized Jim's hands in hers and held them up before the coroner and the jury.
There were deep breathing and shuffling of feet as Allan completed this part of his statement, but only the coroner found his voice.
I had to leave his body, but I wish you would send a man up to stay about the place until I can get a coroner out here.
A choking spell seized him, and he would have fallen had not the policeman and the coroner held him on his feet.
After a thorough examination of the scene they laid the body in a democrat and returned to Arthurs', where the coroner held his court in the bunk-house.
He was leaving the room with the Bible in his hand, but Frank could not suffer that, and he said: 'I suppose all these things must stay here till the coroner sees them; so I will put the Bible where I found it.
We can do nothing more until the coroner comes, which will hardly be to-day.
Mrs. Tracy passed the allusion to the coroner in silence, but of the little girl she said: 'I suppose the child must come to the funeral, but you surely do not mean to keep her?
Nor was the evidence of the coroner put in, so that there was no real preliminary formal proof that Overbury had been poisoned at all.
He was on the point of being buried, as having died of dysentery due to alcoholism, when the suspicions of his brother led the coroner to stop the funeral.
Coroner Walsh had no better success than had Sheriff O'Neil.
During the examination of Coroner Walsh, after his failure to find Ruef, Shortridge insisted upon interrupting the examination.
Again the Coroner quibbled and Judge Dunne ordered: "Answer the question.
Remembering a bunch of keys he had found in one of Maxwell's pockets, the coroner produced it and tried several in the lock.
I have notified the coroner and he has expressed the desire to have you all present when he takes the body away.
Eagerly the coronerseized the latter and attempted to open it.
Byrd said that since it would be impossible to take all, he must limit his permission to those whom the coroner had asked to be present at the removal of the body from the mountain-top cave.
Coroner Huffman and Pickles made the first trip with Mr. Miles to the top of the mountain.
The other members of the party were awaiting the arrival of the last airship-load of passengers, as the coroner desired the presence of all the original witnesses when he removed the body.
At that they all gave way, as both Hal and the coroner had been aching to do, so comical was Mr. Miles' pain-drawn face.
I hate to have that lion get away," said the coroner regretfully; "but I suppose we might as well go back.
Two lanterns had been brought along, and with the aid of these the coronermade a careful inspection of the cave.
He stuck his head through the fissure beside the bowlder and seemed about to leap whenCoroner Huffman fired again.
The coroner made an itemized list of these packages and coins according to denominations and amounts.
Keep it up, boys, and you'll soon have everything well named," said the coroner with appreciative cheeriness.
Coroner Huffman, meanwhile, was examining the other envelopes.
I bet he was a robber hiding from the police," Hal declared as the coroner began to search the dead man's pockets.
A few moments afterwards, the Coroner said: "I have received this note from Li Choo the Chinaman, sometime employed by the deceased Joel Mazarine.
The Coronerhere interposed a question as to whether it would have been possible for anyone but a man to commit the crime.
Holding up a piece of paper, he handed it to the Coronerand then stood blinking and immobile.
He is dead," he said, and he came back again to the Coroner and the others.
He was then asked by counsel whether he had arrived at any conclusion, when at the Cross Trails or afterwards, as to who committed the crime; but the Coroner would not permit the question.
The Coroner stood waiting for Rada to come, when suddenly the door opened and a Chinaman entered--one of the two who had appeared so strangely on the scene the day before.
Recalling Orlando, the Coroner asked if it was the case that the death of Mazarine might be an advantage to him in any way.
That seemed logical enough, but it was presently pointed out to the Coroner that the same consideration had existed when Orlando had threatened Mazarine in the streets of Askatoon.
It is hard to say if all believed his story, but the Coroner did, and Burlingame, his lawyer, also did.
The two constables standing beside the Coroner made a move forward, as though to show they meant to enforce the law without any palaver.
The Coroner added that it was only the duty of the witness to state what he had seen.
The Coroner believed the story solely because Orlando's frankness and straightforwardness filled him with confidence.
The Coroner presently stated that he had only asked the question so as to remove this possibility from consideration.
The Coroner complimented the jury upon their verdict and then discharged the panel.
At the conclusion of the testimony, the Coroner charged the jury briefly, and sent them into the shack to agree upon a verdict.
The Coroner would have preferred that it should be taken into the shack for the holding of the inquest.
Then, with the other men grouped about him, the Coronerselected a jury, and a minute later the investigation was under way according to due form of law.
Now they were arranging a windlass, with block and fall, to bring the victim up to where the Coroner was impatiently waiting to perform his duty.
The same thorough search of the dead body of Roon later on by the coronerand sheriff, revealed a similar condition.
By the way, have you heard when the coroner is to hold his inquests?
Mr. Rushcroft complained bitterly of the outrageous, high-handed action of the coroner and sheriff in imposing upon him and his company the same restrictions that had been applied to Barnes.
Among them was the doctor who, they were soon to discover, was also the coroner of the county.
Last night I have tell Herr Kraus; and he say that since I have told the coroner I know notings, much better I touch the lady for five hundert and go home.
But she did not come downstairs or manifest herself in any way until they had had time to summon the coroner (who to be sure lived round the corner) and Dr.
There are many things in your favour--particularly Frieda's assertion before the coroner that she knew nothing of the case.
The coroner released her as quickly as possible, and called her servant to the stand.
Even the scornful questions of counsel which forced her to admit that she had lied to the coroner neither perturbed her nor made any impression on jury, press, or spectators.
The Coroner had risen and was pacing the room slowly.
Was it merely to vindicate his professional pride at the failure he and the Coroner had had so far with the case?
King sent Flint off after the coronerin order to get the two apart.
And one of you would better remain with the body, without disturbing it in any way, until the coroner comes.
If you are an officer, you may summon thecoroner and have him empanel a jury.
There used to be a rumor, perhaps it is current yet in many Jersey counties, that a coroner was the only official who could legally arrest the sheriff in case that official needed taking into custody.
Over the deliberations, which were, at best, rather informal, Coroner Billy Teller presided.
No, the coroner is waiting for permission from the prosecutor.
The office of coroner was, in Lakeside, as in most New Jersey cities or towns, much of an empty title.
He was quickly approached by the same constable who had remained at his side during the recess, and a moment later Coroner Billy Teller adjourned court.
Did you bring it to the attention of the coroner or the prosecutor that Harry Bartlett saw my father just before-before his death, and quarreled with him?
I have been nosing around some, and I happen to know that the prosecutor and coroner haven't a bit more evidence than they had at first when they held Mr. Bartlett.
The coroner pointed out that robbers kill their victims for the sake of booty, which evidently was not the case in the present instance, and declared revenge to be at the bottom of it all.
The coroner asked to whom this sickle belonged, and lo!
It is always a great point with the coroner to secure as soon as possible the fatal weapon.
It is carefully studied even by the underlings who play only subordinate parts on such occasions, and the coroner himself generally carries his private copy with him in his sedan-chair to the very scene of the inquest.
On being arrested, he denied his guilt; but the coroner pointed to the flies settling upon the sickle, attracted by the smell of blood, and the murderer bent his head in silent acknowledgment of his crime.
Every coroner provides himself with a form, drawn up according to these divisions, and on this he enters the various wounds he finds on the body at the inquest.
Give a Chinese coroner merely the dry and imperfect skeleton of a man known to have been murdered, and he will generally succeed in fixing the guilt on some one.
These incidental facts were noted down later after the coroner had been called to take charge; they were the subject of considerable comment next day when the inquest took place.
The coroner was of the opinion that the old man had been killed by a heart seizure, and that he had died on the instant the attack came.
Without unnecessary delay, the Coroner briefly stated the occasion of the hearing, and then gave the results of his observation and post-mortem.
When the jurors were all in their seats the Coroner requested Dalton to proceed with the evidence and Van Bult was called.
Very shortly the Coroner and his jury entered, and the latter, after their usual fashion, stood huddled together and stared about them.
So intense was the interest that neither the Coroner nor a juror had suggested any recess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coroner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: autopsy; coroner; doctor; inquest; intern; leech; medico; physician; postmortem; resident; sawbones
