AN UNEXPLAINED FATALITY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 18 June 1914, Page 5

AN UNEXPLAINED FATALITY

YOUNG MAN KILLED ON THE ROAD.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Timaru, Last Night.

An inquest was held to-day o'n Wm. Quinn, a young farmer of Maklkihi, who was found unconscious with his leg broken and injuries to his head and shoulders on the main road near Makikihi on the night of the 10th iftst., and who died after his removal to his home.

The principal evidence was given by a party of four who were returning from Waimate to Timaru in a hired car. The driver stated that he saw something lying flat on the road, and took it to be a shadow till close up. He then supposed it to be a bag of coal, and swerved the car, but a front wheel bumped over something, which he supposed was a lump of coal from the hag. The others behind felt no bump. The driver, knowing another car was following, said he would shift the bag, and pulled up. On going back, be found it was a man, and concluded he had run over his leg. When he got back, another witness, a neighbor named Martin, who had been walking along the road, had reached the body, and was moving it. The car went backto Waimate for a doctor. A whisky bottle, with a broken cork not drawn, was found. There was evidence on the road that the body had been dragged, but the car-driver was sure his car dragged nothing. The Coroner found that deceased died from shock, the result of injuries by being run down by a motor-car, but there was no evidence to show who was the driver of the car which caused the injuries.