SMASH AT BEND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 14

SMASH AT BEND.

YOUTH FATALLY INJURED. ' pouch chai;<;k as sf.qckl. • (Ity Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPCKI'R AC, Friday. A p-oi-crV assistant, Neil David j Mel Joldrick (21), of Hataitai, Welling- ■ ton. was charged at (lie Magistrate's foiirt that "At Wlienauhou, near Taka-i pan. on October 22. while in a state: of J intoxication when in charge of a motor vehicle, by an act of omission he caused the death of Harold Claude HusseM.*' Kiis-ell, who was aged ll!J years, was al.-o a grocer's a distant. and lived with his widowed mother at 2"i, Dislev Street. Kelbui n. The original charge of negligent driving. causing death, was withdrawn on the application of the police. Mr. •(. Miller, S.M.. was on the Bench, with the coroner, Mr. F. Adeane. The Court room was cleared of witnesses. The inquest touching Russell's death, which was opened on October 24 and adjourned. I was conducted in conjunction with ( oiirt proceedings. A police officer i described a visit to the scene of the accident. He found Ruissell's pulso ! slight, but he was dead on the arrival of a doctor three quarters of an hour later. Accused, said witness, was not

in ii (it condition to drive, nwincr to having taken )ii|wir. will he adon%man; I will lie ruined for life,"' was accused's reply, <•<inti 11 uecl witness, when arretted. From an inspection of the locality it appealed that t lie van had 1 ravelled -iraiglit on and had n*>t attempted to round the eorner. fiordon Cunningham. a farmer, save evidence of hearing the crash. He found tin- \an overturned. The corner, lie said, uas a dangerous one to strangers to the district, and several other ears had pre\ illll-!y got the road. .lames Murphy, licensee of the Takap.in Hotel, recalled .iceii-ed's \i- i t \\ iI h ,i friend at IK o'clock on the ni'jlit of the accident. They were under the intlueiicc of liipior. and uitne-,- refn-ed to supply them w illl more. lie ordered t hem to lea ve. Mdi.dil.ick pleaded not guilty and ua- committed to the Supreme Court at Napier for trial. Hail was allowed.