Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Tuesday 13 September 1904
A DANGEROUS PRACTICE: Visitor Killed at Shaldon.
Yesterday an inquiry was held by Mr G. F. Kellock (deputy coroner), of Totnes, at the Town Hall, Teignmouth, touching the death of Edgar Candy, age 27, a civil engineer, of Balham, London, S.W., whose death occurred at Teignmouth on Shaldon Regatta day under the circumstances already reported. The deceased accompanied William Henry Pinsent, a brewer, of Newton Abbot, and William James Davis, solicitor's clerk, of Teignmouth, to Shaldon Regatta. They went, on the roundabouts, Candy getting on the outside horse. He sat with his back to the horse's head, and while going around apparently attempted to turn round, fell into the road. He was subsequently taken to the Teignmouth Infirmary in an unconscious condition and found Mr Ernest E. C. Price, the house surgeon, to be suffering from concussion of the brain, and from these injuries he succumbed. The Coroner said the deceased seemed to have been riding in a very loose way, and there -was a question as to whether it was right for the roundabout to continue while the deceased was in that unsafe condition. The jury returned a verdict of 'Accidental death', adding a rider to the effect that the practice of permitting persons to stand on the platform or sit in the wrong positions on the horses while the machine was in motion was very unsafe.
