HAWERA INQUEST.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 356, 10 February 1937, Page 5

HAWERA INQUEST.

Verdict Of Suicide Given By Coroner. Press Association—Copyright. Received 12.30 p.m. Hawera, To-day. A verdict that the deceased committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a car driven by Gordon Roxford Weir, New Plymouth, on the evening of December 17 last, on the Waihi Road, Hawera, was returned by the Coroner, Mr R. S. Sage, at the inquest yesterday into the death of Corbett Colledge, unemployed, Wellington. The Coroner added that no blame 'was attachable to Weir. Evidence was given by a cyclist who passed Weir’s car almost at the scene of the accident, that a man whom witness identified from a photograph as the deceased had acted queerly and stepped out in front of her cycle. On two occasions previously he had stood in the middle of the road, directly in the lights of an oncoming car. The police produced evidence of Identification, which bad been difficult owing to the absence of relatives. It is believed that the dvccascil leaves a wife tn England.