The Coroner’s Court
At about five o’clock last Tuesday I was on duty at the Post Office. I saw the deceased Dibble, unknown to me at the time, he staggered against one of the Pillars and fell down the steps. I picked him up apparently dead. I got him into a cab to the Hospital, when he was pronounced recently dead. His name was unknown. He was 5 ft 8 ins tall and had dark hair and a reddish beard turning grey. He was pale and sickly in appearance and appeared to be about 40 years old. He was of thin build and was dressed in an old brown sack coat, white striped vest, dark grey trousers, striped shirt, elastic-side shoes and wore a soft white hat. He was in a most filthy state and crawled with vermin.
Constable John Connolly
I knew the deceased Dibble I gave him an order for this Hospital about a Fortnight ago I believe he was an Out Patient of this Hospital He drank to excess he was suffering from the effects of drinking He has lived upon me for the last few months he was unfit for any occupation I saw him last alive on last Monday.
Geo. K Parker, marble mason
Consigned to pauper’s grave.
The Melbourne Cup was run the following Tuesday, and won by Grand Flaneur.
A week later again, Sir Redmond Barry put a black silk handkerchief on his head and pronounced Ned Kelly’s doom. Ned Kelly in his turn pronounced sentence on Sir Redmond Barry. Who died less than two weeks after Kelly was hanged.