ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 August 1918, Page 7

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

MOTORIST COMMITTED FOR

trial.

AUCKLAND, August 19

As a sequel to the death of John Patton, a tramway worker, who was knocked down by a motor car in Khyber Pass on August 12th, S. Carey and Rupert J. Morris, drivers of the two cars involved, were) charged at the Police Court to-day with man-slaughter Sergeant Mathews gave evidence that on the way to the morgue, Carey said; “The worst of it is I was on my wrong side. There was an obstruction on the other side and,l could not get through.’ ’ Witness measured the space between the obstruction thrown upf by the tramway gang, and the kerbing, and found it 9J feet. It was eighty yards from the spot where the blood-stains were to where it was alleged Carey had turned his car. Accused said he had passed the obstruction at 9 o’clock that morning, just missing a man crossing the track. Carey denied that he was travelling at 30 miles an hour. Morris stated that he went on the wrong side of he road because there was a cart on the other side. He did not know there was a car following. Other witnesses stated that they saw two cars travelling at a high speed, in one instance at least, and in the other on the -wrong side. One said the first car missed the deceased by about a foot. Both accused pleaded not guilty and reserved their defence. They were committed for trial.