MANSLAUGHTER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 640, 18 October 1909, Page 7

MANSLAUGHTER.

' CHAUFFEUR WIIO CHARGED TROOPS. ; Illy I'iirttrft [ih. I'lAm AiwnHftjlni* ■ Cupf-rieM i :M. : ; (Roc. : October 17, 5.5 p.ni.) - : ; V London,. October 16. : Arthur John Sautch, the ohauffeur who drove, tho motor car at Salisbury Main whioh- iujur«l a aumber^f-Territorial trbopSon August. 12, Gunner. Snow being, tilled, J has been tenced to eight months' imprisonment- for- manslaughter;- ' ■Y \V . •- ' CAR CUTS ITS-WAY THROUGH . .. A column. . •At the'time of tho August tyanoeuvres.. a column :i the Territorial.Force, SK- menand throe officers, were marching to KolestOu camp froth Antesbury Station, in theearly hours of the -morning. Thoy had roaohed nearly to the bot torn of a (tip in tho'silent volley where tho fotf coverod them so that from above-they weto corn fpletoly. invlsiblo, when: Lieutenant Hobson, sec. tion cominander in tho roar, hearing a .noiap, 'looked.back and saw 'that.a uiotor car was fol lowing ift their stops.' It was updri thorn almost •before h9 had realised - that it Was not' slowing down. 1 He had no titoeito give more than'a ere. and to leap aside before tho car Vas by him liko.a sword-cut.' Th«i men in the rear.-ranki realised >ho danger, as. he did, and endeavoured to leap aside.. But mafohing four abreast thay Were in one anothor's way, helpless almost as a flock, 6f sheep .of individual .movement. v ; .Tho motor car dashed into them like a bat tering-ram.. It was so sudden .that the .thing hftd all occurred before they kuotv anything wv happoning.. "The first I; knew/' Said a gunner, "was when I saw tho road rising up and nitUnf. mo." Through the'columri,..tumbling men like ninepins, tho car tore, this driver at; theivheil steering this way and that 'as' with"' its uncontrollable impetus it rtlshed'.down'Hio hill. Whob -it'earns to a standstill .it,had cut.; a:."swath' through the entiroVcolumn .and had-reached within ton feet of.Cftptalh. Fiflch,', who. w» marohing ahead. V■ 1 : . . ' Fifty men, many of thetn 'jnserisible,Wire upon tho ground on either sidd of the road; • One manitfaS lying in a'field ten feet away-.from the road, In the fog it was-impossible. at.first to estimate extent of the accident. 1 . Soroo' uf the iinihjured men at Hio heAd of the column, furious with anger, wero menacing tho'flriver of the can '.They tverefor dragging, him' from hU seat ( but Ctiplain Finch interfered oad.plaeed the mfcn iinuer. arrest. A number of. men wero serioittl", injured, and GuAnir E.'A.i'Show,' lbtH Battery, .: 55 Kimberley "Road, Nunheael,: was killed, - ...I-'.! The car was a 50-h.p. machine employed iiy the London: VDaily Cnroniole" te brin<t : down ..from London'the copies,of the morning's issue of the paper for sale in .the' Territorial camps. The driver gave'his name ts Arthuf John Nun.tort Suteh, or Sautoh,' of , Battersea.' . ■ Ho was marched under. escort into the camp of the Ith Brigade; whither Lieutenant Hobson drove tUs Clip..' Its Obuditioh Showed the • terrible force with which it had charged'the solid body of .men.- The front lamps were forced baok, their fronts battefed and their supports bent; The side .lamps were smashed, :tf\e radiator was dented, tne exhaust pipe was broken, and ; the cover of the flywheel set hack several Inohte, .No other obstaoles than human bodies ' had caused this damage. ,