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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 January 1913, Page 2

INQUEST ON ELLEN MARY GORDON, An inquest was openfid in the Ter«. minus Hotel at 9 o'clock this morning, on the body of Ellen Mary Gordon, " who met her death in the motor, accident at Kaukapakapa, before W. Ryall Fosbroke, Esq., J. P., and a jury of six: Messrs G. Graham f foreman), W. A. Laird, G. F. Willis, E. H. Cucksey, W, A Drinnan, and E. Flowers. After the jury had viewed the body, Mr R. Holmes was called, and stated he was a schoolmaster residing at Havelock North. He' had seen the body of deceased, and identified her as Ellen Mary Gordon, aged 41 years, wife of Frank Lindsay Gordon, sheepfarmer, Clifton, Olive, H.B. She is v<\ daughter of Thomas Tanner, aheep-\ • farmer, Havelock North. He knewj nothing about the accident, being only/. a visitor in Helensville. . *' t^ Alter hearing Dr. Meinhold'a evivl ™ dence as to cause of deatb^ which was from a broken neck, Constable Driscoll asked lor an adjournment till Monday morning at 10 o'clock, at the" Courthouse. The jury then proceeded to Kaukapakapa to view the scene of the accident. A full report of the evidence will be published next week. A DANGEROUS CROSSING. The crossing where the accident occured is within a few chains of the Kaukapakapa station and is consider- ' ed a dangerous one, especially for motor traffic, the line being hidden from | viow by a high hedge along the road side, and the crossing in a dip in the road is not noticeable until almost reached, although the usual regular tion posts are there to mark the place* - This crossing, and the one at. Helens '' \ : ville South have we understand Ibeea '

brought under the notice of the De« partment but nothing so far has been done to make them safer. Where the fatality occurred there are few trains, the one going north can easily fee seen but the one coming irom North is not decernable until almost on the road.