Eveidence given by Larkin Grooms before me Vachel A. Smith magistrate acting coroner for said county concerning manner in Jonathan C. Newman came to his death declares on oath that in the evening of the sixth of Oct'r Instante he the said Grooms was drawing dirt, him and William Gee from the said Newman when Digging a well at said newman's the curb of the well give way causing the dirt to cave in covering said newman some fifteen feet under ground. he heart a slight struggle from said Newman, nothing more. Larkin his mark Grooms