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Abondio BETTI

Burial Location:Leonora  (details...)
Occupation: Miner
Place of Death: Leonora District Hospital
Date of Death: 19 November 1936
Date of Burial:20 November 1936
Age:42 years
Cause of Death:Fell Down a Mine Shaft
OGM Ref#: 2825
Headstone:OGM Aluminium
This is a photograph of plaque number 2825 for ABONDIO BETTI at LEONORA

REF 2825 ABONDIO BETTI LEONORA

Biography

Betti was working with his two partners, Jack Anderson and Alessio Betti, on a prospecting show, known as the Nine Mile Peg, in the Linden district, 60 miles from Leonora.  His partners were working at the bottom of the shaft, which was 103 ft deep. Betti was on the surface hauling ore by a windlass.
For some reason, which has not been ascertained, he apparently slipped and fell to the bottom of the shaft.
Betti was taken to the Leonora Hospital and an operation was performed but he died at 7 am the next day. 
Police and Mines Inspector, Mr Foxall, drove out to Linden to view the scene that afternoon, returning to Leonora at midnight.  An inquest was opened before the deputy coroner, Mr. G. T. Moffiit, J.P., in the Leonora Courthouse on 20 November before Messrs G. T. Moffit, deputy coroner, M. McAppion, R. Gibb, and E. Bradshaw, jurors, Inspector Foxall, Mines Department, K. McLean, A.W.U., and Constable Jacobs, who assisted the coroner, in taking evidence. 
Dr. J. Piccles gave evidence that he had received a telephone call from Murrin and proceeded there and saw the deceased, who was unconscious. The doctor conveyed the injured man to the Leonora Hospital, where he died at 7.10 o'clock the next morning, November 19.
The doctor put in a report of the post mortem examination which he had conducted, stating that the cause of death was a fractured spine and a fractured skull.
Alessio Betti, a prospecting mate of the deceased (but not related) gave evidence of identification and described the circumstances following the accident. He had known Abondio Betti about six years and had no knowledge of his having been subject to fits or giddiness. 
John Henderson, another mate, told the court that on November 18, when he and Alessio Betti were working in short drives north and south of the shaft, he heard a fall and found the deceased lying across an ore bucket (which was smashed) at the bottom of the shaft, in an unconscious state.  Henderson and Alessio Betti removed
the injured man to the drive, ascended the shaft and procured a mattress, returned to the drive, strapped the deceased to it and hauled him to the surface. 
Henderson had heard Betti on one or two occasions complain of dizziness.  He believed that the deceased had a sister named Margaret Delavanza, living at Maddington.
After a short retirement, the jury brought in the following verdict: "That Abondio Betti died at the Leonora Hospital at 7.10 am on November 19, 1936, as a result of injuries received through falling down a shaft on November 18, on a prospecting area known as the Nine-Mile Peg, about nine miles from Linden. There is no evidence to show how the fall was caused."
Spouse:Unmarried
Birth Details:Born circa 1894, Sondrio, Italy
Death Certificate:4300026/1936, Mount Margaret