CIRCUS HAND’S DEATH
DUE TO INCOMPETENT MOTORIST
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
CHETSp’C’HURCH, .May 12. Details of the accident in which Oliver Jack, aged 33, employed as a clown with a travelling-circus, was killed wliie travelling as a passenger in a car are to hand. It overturned near Tai Taup late on Sunday night. Jack was pinned under the car and was killed instntly. The night was foggy and the lights failed, with the result tnat the car 1 was driven over a hank at the side of the road.
It is believed that Jack had relatives in Sydney. The car was driven by Herbert John Langford, aged 18. At the inquest to-night, Langford gave evidence .that Jack had induced him to procure, without permission, one of his (Langford’s) employer’s cays; yo| drive Jack to Tai Tapu where his circus was. A-« . V.’-
The Coroner found that death was accidental, but that the cause of the accident was Langford’s losing control of : the through incompetence as a- driver. % i{”; | (,
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1930, Page 6
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