THE ROSENEATH ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 3

THE ROSENEATH ACCIDENT

9-OWNER-:01? HOItSE PKOSECUTED. As an outcome of the accident which befel Captain A; J. Cross whilst motoring at lioseneath recently, Frederick Sincott was yesterday charged before Mr. 'Jj, Page, S.M.,' at the Magistrate's Court with a breach of a city by-lair'by allowing a horse to be at large. Mr. M'Eldowney, on behalf of tlio City Solicitor, stated that the horse which collided with Captain Cross's motor-car was tho oao which, the defendant was now charged witit allowing it to be «t large. ■ - ' Captain Alexander James Cross said that on September 1C ho was driving homo up Roseneath hill in his car, when lie heard a horso galloping. ' Ho pulled j into the sido of the road and stopped, suddenly the animal dashed into the '/ car. 'Ho was injured, and tlio car / . damaged. | J On behalf of the defendant Mr. T. / Young said tho offence was quite an accident. The horse had been left tethered in-a vacant section. It had apparently been frignteiicd by something and brolcoli av.-ay. Jt was nit- a case of a wilful breach of tho by-law, but purely an accident. ' Evidence on the lines of counsel f) statement was given by the defendant, ami the owner, of the animal. His Worship imposed a line of 10s., and cos'ii 'Js.