Edmund Gartside

History
Gartside had been missing for several weeks when his body was found in the Redan quarries in September 1890: "This morning a butcher's dealer named Edwd. Gartside, aged 58 years, was found drowned in a quarry hole in the neighborhood of Pleasant Street, Ballarat West. Deceased had been missing for three weeks. His hands were found in his trousers pockets, and it is presumed that he walking leisurely along on the night he was missed and stumbled into the hole, which is said to be not properly protected. Not long ago another man was drowned in the same excavation. At the inquest to day a verdict of accidental death was returned."