BICYCLE FATALITY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14099, 19 July 1911, Page 10

BICYCLE FATALITY.

Yesterday morning a manr-flf-l John Richard Soper w_2_sß« cling in t_e vicinity of JiaTtZWmi and Ed-are-* are road. St. Alha-sS-lr off his machine, and died fromttjls to his head. -'^wl--An inquest was held in the kf_-_li beiore Air H. W. Bishop. f2_H Ooroner. . 3sßKi John James Victor Soper acaiilil*'* deceased, stated that his „t__SS|fMk years of age, and resided at street. St. Albans. At g -_.J1S1? left home on their bin_lll "V go to the St. AlbiSll A' Brigade station. Both «n___| '* customed to riding bicyoWirti " places yesterday morain_lpl roads were slippery. ' corner of Cranford strrtA*-M J-dgeware toad,. v-.n-ro the ttfflll - turns in from Edgeware road Wtm "*' ford street, they were riding '~g r each other, and witness T: Edgewaro road more quickly flag! ■ father. His father waa just-SSi bend when witness heard tall, and on looking round he aggw -is father bad fallen, and walflg about two feet from the tram t«I-8 bicycle being on top of hin-jaji appeared to oo unconscious. WaM! went tor Dr. Borne, but in -ifa-'fiS time Dr. Irving had arrived. **&» * thought that his father's '* ded on the tram rails and fg-fj " under him. At the time of theji \ dent they were travelling »t tbeli of tbreo or fonr miles an Iwttr'.'tfl "- father was not subject-to fits,'?-!! Dr. Irving stated that he irulu to see the deceased shortly after §1] ' He was lying on tho footpath in'M ' borne street. He was quite a-edl! death appeared to have been "tm the body bein-? quite warm." Bam a superficial examination, of the'S and found a largo grazed wound oil right side of the face. There wasj-ftf dence of any other injury. He %M opinion that death was due to km caused by the concussion from tbejgH probably deceased had a weak b&qg_| The Coroner recorded a cordance with the medical t-t-nj^M