AN OLD MAN’S DEATH
STRUCK BY PASSING CYCLIST,
Christchurch, Last Night.
The inquest into the death of Joseph Hawthorne, an old-age pensioner, aged 83, who was knocked down by a motor-cycle in Fendalton on July 2nd, was concluded to-day by Mi 1 . Young, S.M. The motor-cycle was driven by Robert. Beattie Wilson, a draper’s assistant, who said that lie was travelling at ten or fifteen miles an hour. The night was dark and foggy and witness did not see the old man until close upon him. Witness managed to miss him with the machine but his shoulder struck Hawthorne who fell. Other evidence was that the old man had a habit of wandering at night. He always walked on the roadway instead of the footpath and was a danger fro himself and to the traffic.
A verdict was returned of ac cidental death.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3664, 12 July 1927, Page 3
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143AN OLD MAN’S DEATH Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3664, 12 July 1927, Page 3
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