PERJURY ALLEGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 191, 14 August 1928, Page 8

PERJURY ALLEGED.

WITNESS AT INQUEST.

POLICE MAT PROSECUTE. CORONER'S SUGGESTION. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. The suggestion that the police should consider bringing an action against a man for perjury was made by Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., coroner, at the resumed inquest on Thomas Horgan, who died after falling from a truck at Mamaku on August 1. David Albert Carter, a labourer, in the employ of the Public Works Department, said that he and Horgan and others went to Rotorua in two motor trucks. They had some drink and left on the return journey about 6.30 p.m. While several of the men on the lorry were a little the worse for drink, Horgan -was quite sober, and was exercising supervision over the others. As the truck rounded the corner it gave a lurch and Horgan overbalanced and fell on to the road. When he was picked up he was unconscious. Thomas O'Leary, who gave evidence in the early stage of the inquest, was asked why he had told the coroner that when the accident happened Horgan was returning from work with him, after spreading metal. Witness replied that they had been spreading metal earlier in the day, and as they were being paid for the full 16 hours he thought he was right in saying what he had said. The Coroner: I will leave your evidence in the hands of the police to take action against you for perjury if they deem it lit. The verdict was that Horgan met his death through injuries received in falling off a truck.