Kauai County HI Archives Obituaries.....Sallas, Domingo September 26, 1916
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The Garden Island, Lihue, Kauai, Tues., 9-26-1916
SALLAS, DOMINGO
BOY FOUND DEAD BELOW PRECIPICE.  Sheriff Rice has received the papers in the case 
of a coroner's inquiry into the death of one Domingo Sallas, a Puerto Rican boy, 
aged 12, on the hills above Lawai. From the evidence brought out, it appears that 
the lad went out to gather firewood. He did not return that afternoon nor night, 
and the next day a search was instituted for him. This search was kept up for two 
days, the body being found finally at the base of a 30-foot precipice from which 
he had evidently fallen. The skull was fractured, and there were other injuries to 
head and shoulders. A number of witnesses were examined, but none seemed to know 
anything further than that the boy left the house for the hills, and that the body 
was found in the position indicated. Dr. Waterhouse, who examined the body shortly 
after it was found, testified as to the injuries discovered. The jury returned a 
verdict to the effect that the lad came to his death as the result of a fall of 30 
feet from a rocky precipice, striking and crushing his skull on a rock, dying 
instantaneously, and due to his own carelessness.  


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posted by rms [Exact date of death not stated in obituary]

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