Death from Inhalation of Poisonous Gases Generated in a Grain Pit or Katee; Post-Mortem Examination and Remarks

The bodies of three brothers named Boodhoo, Nuthoo, and Bhondoo, were brought in for examination on July 22nd, 187-1, haying met their deaths under the following circumstances:? On the previous day a bunniah of Deobund (20 miles distant from the sudder station) opened a hatec or grain pit at 10 a.m. for the purpose of having it filled with gram. Two months before it had been filled to within 9 feet of the mouth with wheat, and then closed, and not again opened until the present occasion. The mouth of the ka(ee was only 2J feet in diameter.? Anxious to get the work finished during a fine interval in the rains, the owner insisted on his servants, four brothers, the three above named and another, setting to work immediately without taking any of the ordinary precautions. To this they cbjecter1, bung proballv aware of the danger. The owner, however, prevailed, and Boodhoo first descended into the pit. As he neither : nswere 1 when called to, nor returned, Nuthoo followed in about five minutes, and again after