ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 64, 15 November 1913, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

ii-A FARMER'S DEATH.

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, iDunedin, November' 11

Mr Joseph Kce, a well-known farmer at Kelso, was killed this morning.. ,He was,, working >vi,l;li, a waggon team, and was knocked down and run over. He was a young man and was married about a year ago.

W ;h A iMOTQRUCCIDfENJ, . .- W i, , tlifnv, ii Auckland,, r> T ov,eitibei(, 1 % s ,; ,->3lhe hearing) of the, .charge of. iiiau--slaughter against George Hopkins,was concluded in the Police Court to-day. Hopkins was the driver of, a motor car -which knocked down and fatally injured Thomas Clemond Thorpe on the Mangero road, on October 19. After' further evidence had been given by several persons who witnessed the accident, on the same lines as the evidence called'at the inquest, Detective Scott went into the box and deposed that when accused wafc arrested he said that he had given £l6O, which he had borrowed to the deceased lad's parents. Witness understood that this gift was made because the accused was- sorry for the lad, not because he admitted any liability. Mr E. C. Gutten, S.M., said that it was one of those unfortunate cases over which he had no' jurisdiction. Accused was, therefore, committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in his own surety of £IOO, and in one other of a like amount.