nyshistoricnewspapers.org SULLIVAN COUNTY RECORD, Jeffersonville, NY Sept 19 1929 pg 1: Dr J C Gain, coroner of Jeffersonville, held an inquest at Liberty last Thursday into the death of Benjamin Coddington, night clerk and watchman at the Hall House, who was found unconscious from a fractured skull in the new annex to the hotel under construction early Sunday morning Sept 1
It was supposed that he had fallen through an opening left for a stairway, and then in a dazed condition crawled 40 feet to the elevator shaft, where he was found, leaning on his arms over a railing.
He was taken to the Liberty Hospital, where he died after several days without regaining consciousness.
During his time in the hospital he mumbled words which were taken to mean that some one had hit him.
This started an investigation which District Attorney Gardner LeRoy and Coroner Gain took up.
After examining 15 witnesses they failed to find any proof or indication of foul play, and the coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.
He was about 35 years old and married.
He was a man of good habits and not an enemy.
He was a teacher in the Liberty Baptist Sunday School.
It was supposed that he had fallen through an opening left for a stairway, and then in a dazed condition crawled 40 feet to the elevator shaft, where he was found, leaning on his arms over a railing.
He was taken to the Liberty Hospital, where he died after several days without regaining consciousness.
During his time in the hospital he mumbled words which were taken to mean that some one had hit him.
This started an investigation which District Attorney Gardner LeRoy and Coroner Gain took up.
After examining 15 witnesses they failed to find any proof or indication of foul play, and the coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.
He was about 35 years old and married.
He was a man of good habits and not an enemy.
He was a teacher in the Liberty Baptist Sunday School.
nyshistoricnewspapers.org SULLIVAN COUNTY RECORD, Jeffersonville, NY Sept 19 1929 pg 1: Dr J C Gain, coroner of Jeffersonville, held an inquest at Liberty last Thursday into the death of Benjamin Coddington, night clerk and watchman at the Hall House, who was found unconscious from a fractured skull in the new annex to the hotel under construction early Sunday morning Sept 1
It was supposed that he had fallen through an opening left for a stairway, and then in a dazed condition crawled 40 feet to the elevator shaft, where he was found, leaning on his arms over a railing.
He was taken to the Liberty Hospital, where he died after several days without regaining consciousness.
During his time in the hospital he mumbled words which were taken to mean that some one had hit him.
This started an investigation which District Attorney Gardner LeRoy and Coroner Gain took up.
After examining 15 witnesses they failed to find any proof or indication of foul play, and the coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.
He was about 35 years old and married.
He was a man of good habits and not an enemy.
He was a teacher in the Liberty Baptist Sunday School.
It was supposed that he had fallen through an opening left for a stairway, and then in a dazed condition crawled 40 feet to the elevator shaft, where he was found, leaning on his arms over a railing.
He was taken to the Liberty Hospital, where he died after several days without regaining consciousness.
During his time in the hospital he mumbled words which were taken to mean that some one had hit him.
This started an investigation which District Attorney Gardner LeRoy and Coroner Gain took up.
After examining 15 witnesses they failed to find any proof or indication of foul play, and the coroner gave a verdict of accidental death.
He was about 35 years old and married.
He was a man of good habits and not an enemy.
He was a teacher in the Liberty Baptist Sunday School.
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