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MILITARY POLICEMAN'S

DEATH.

THE INQUEST OPENED. ' .

Melbourne, October 23.

An inquest concerning the death of Pri- vate George Stevens, a military policeman, who was killed on the railway on Wednes- day night, while escorting Private Lachlan Barclay, a military prisoner, from Mel- bourne to the Bendigo camp, was opened at Bendigo to-day. Private Barclay was

present in the custody of a military guard.

Private D. Morrison, a member of the Reinforcements at the Bendigo camp, said the soldiers on the train had various drinks, and on arrival at Castlemaine Ste- vens appeared to be getting the worse for liquor. Barclay made a remark that Ste- vens should square himself up before they arrived at Bendigo. They returned to the train, and all sat down in the same com- partment. Shortly afterwards Stevens left, saying he was going to see if he could get a hand at poker. When the train arrived at Bendigo the witness saw Barclay walking up and down the cor- ridor looking into the compartments.

Barclay asked the witness if he had seen Stevens, and the witness replied in the negative. Stevens and his prisoner (Barclay) were on friendly terms. The   witness had no idea Stevens was missing until he saw Barclay looking for him at

Castlemaine.

Dr. Douglas, resident surgeon at the hospital, who made a post-mortem exami- nation of the body, said it bore many marks of violence. Some of the wounds   must have been received at least one hour before the man died. The cause of death   was shock, consequent on injuries sus-

tained.

At this stage the proceedings were ad-   journed till a date to be fixed in order to enable the police to complete their in-

vestigations.

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