John Hoffner

HOFFNER

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 12/16/2019 at 09:59:20

2 June 1893 - The Clarence Sun

Tuesday night between nine and ten o'clock John Hoffner's horse and cart returned to his home carrying his dead body. Mr. Hoffner's home is one-and-one-a-half miles south-east of Clarence. He has been road overseer and during the day was at his duties overseeing the work on his division. About two o'clock in the afternoon he remarked to those working, that he was going to Mr. Bung's but we are informed that he did not make his appearance there, nor was he in Clarence in the afternoon, or at his home. Where he spent the afternoon, we are unable, at this writing, to say. Between nine and ten o'clock at night his horse returned home with the cart, carrying him lying crosswise of the rig, his head being badly beaten by the spokes of one wheel and his feet by those of the other. The posterior portion of the skull on the right side was broken out and missing, and the brains were all gone from the skull.

The verdict at the inquest was that he came to his death by accidently getting his head fast between the shaft and wheel.

S. W. Spaulding traversed the ground gone over, and states that there are some deep ruts and that the road is very rough.

The funeral takes place to-day at the German church.