FOR TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 139, 14 June 1934, Page 10

FOR TRIAL.

MOTOR CYCLIST CHARGED. SEQUEL TO COLLISION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Stanley Keith Swan, charged with negligently driving a motor cycle, thereby causing the death of Kdgar Wilfred London, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail (£75) was allowed. In evidence William McKeen, traffic inspector, said he had chased the motor cycle along the Hutt Road. It was being ridden in an erratic manner, with the pillion rider swaying from side to side. Witness , speedometer registered 58 miles an hour at one point without his appearing to gain on the motor cycle, which at Kgahauranga nearly collided with a railway bus. At the time of the accident —a collision with a motor car—the cycle was moving from the centre of the road to its correct side and was travelling at about 40 miles an hour. The motor car appeared to witness to be stationary. Harold Jarvis, who had had two shandies with Swan, said he saw London getting on the pillion seat and advised Swan not to take him, as he was a very heavy man. Witness saw London stumble as he got on the pillion seat and expressed the opinion that he was drunk. The Magistrate: In your opinion, would the fact of London being in that condition be a hindrance to Swan. Witness: Absolutely. Sitting as coroner, the magistrate returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries to the head accidentally received.