Daisy May KELLY

1903 - 1909  (6 years)

• Name	Daisy May KELLY
  Birth	1903	Cobden, Victoria, Australia
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 May 1909	Pomborneit, Victoria, Australia
  Person ID	I3688	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Joseph William KELLY
  Mother	Mary Louise PAYNTER,   b. 1873, Carngham, Victoria, Australia d. 14 Nov 1948, 34 Twyford St, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	24 Jul 1900	Terang, Victoria, Australia
  Family ID	F1051	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), Thursday 6 May 1909: MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY. The fatality to reported to Senior constable Arthur. He telephoned to the Coroner, who ordered that a magisterial inquiry be held. This was conducted at Pomborneit yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. D. McKellar, J.P. Joseph William Kelly, laborer, residing at Pomborneit, deposed:—The de ceased was my daughter. She was seven years of age. On Tuesday evening she was riding a pony in the yard at my residence. I heard a scream and saw the pony going towards the gate leading to the paddock. The deceased was hang ing head downwards from the saddle. Her foot was caught in the stirrup. I ran to catch the pony, but it got through the gate before I could reach it. The pony galloped about 200 yards with deceased still hanging from the saddle. The saddle then gave way and she fell to the ground. I picked her up. She was unconscious and bleeding from the nose and a wound in the back of the head. I took her into the house and sent for Dr. Lang. She died shortly afterwards. The pony was quiet. Deceased was in the habit of riding it. She had been riding it about the yard all the afternoon. Myra Grace Kelly, a little daughter of the previous witness, made a statement to the effect that deceased was riding the pony. Witness was leading it for a while. Then she gave her the reins to ride by herself. Deceased got frightened and tried to jump off. Her foot got caught in the stirrup, and the pony ran away with her hanging to the saddle. Dr. P. H. Lang deposed :—I have this day performed a post-mortem examination of the body of Daisy Mary Kelly. Deceased was apparently about seven years old. There was a scalp wound extending down to the bone over the left parieto occipetal region. The skull was fractured and depressed in this region, the fracture extending to the base. There was a fissured fracture present in the frontal region. Death was due to fracture of the skull causing haemorrhage of the brain. The finding was that death was due to fracture of the skull, the result of an accident.