NO BLAME ATTACHABLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 4, 5 January 1910, Page 4

NO BLAME ATTACHABLE.

The inquest on Bohert Baor,l the old Costley Home inmate, who died in the Auckland; Hospital on the loth of December result of injuries received by being- knocked down by a motor car in Cornwall. Park on. the 13th of September, was resumed at the Costlev Home yesterday afternoon after the jury had inspected tire scene of the accident. A full report of the-evidence of Sidney Longuet, the- owner and.: driver of the motor car, was given in Yesterday?, issue; no further evidence, was. taken in the afternoon. The.. Cororter, in summing up, said that the mam point to consider was whether the driver of the car'had used reasonable-care-in driving the car to the gates where the accident happened.. The jury, after considering .the "evidence, returned a verdict that death wa* due to senile debility, accelerated by an injury to the knee, resulting from im pact with a motor car. Deceased came to his death accidentally and :by misfortune, nq blame: being attachable to" anyone., *rf: ... A rider was added recommending- (l \ That the gates of the Park be in the future fastened back by padlocks to stakes fixed in the ground r (2} That a notice board be placed, at the Campbell Statue-at the. entrance to the Parlrj cautioning drivers of vehicles to pass' through the avenue a* a mminruni speed