TWO INQUEST VERDICTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 8

TWO INQUEST VERDICTS.

AUCKLANDER'S FALL FROM TRAIN. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At the inquest concerning the death of Arthur John Ibbotson, a builder, aged 62, the evidence showed that deceased was caught between a motor car and a motor cycle and was knocked down. He died a fortnight later without jecovering consciousness.

The'coroner said there was conflicting evidence as to which of the vehicles first, struck Ibbotson. He returned a verdict that death resulted from injuries received in an accident, which occ-urred through no fault of Ibbotson's. He said he was not prepared to differentiate between the parties as to whose negligence had been responsible for the injuries, and he indicated that even the versions given by two eye-witnesses were at variance. There was no positive evidence that either of the drivers had been negligent.

An inquest was also held coacerning the death of William Joseph McGrath, aged 42, a telegraph operator, of Auckland, whose body was found near the railway track near Johnsonville on December 2. A verdict was returned that deceased was killed through falling off a train, there being no evidence to indicate how the accident occurred.