ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18150, 13 August 1924, Page 11

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.

• HU.TT ROAD FATALITY. (pSXSS •ASS'OCIATIOr TfiLZGaAM.) WJ2LLINGTON, August 12. Al the Supreme Court to-day, the hearing was commenced of the charge of manslaughter against Frank MeDevitt, in connexion with the death of Traffic Inspector William Cross on the Hutt road, on tho evening of April 26th, when cars were returning from Trentham races. The Crown Prosecutor said that it would be shown in evidence, that as soon as MeDevitt loft Trentham, he commenced speeding, . A*t kar*arni. there was a disc notifying that speed be reduced to 12 miles an hour, it was that after the disc was passed, and" when Cross was struck, the car vas travelling at between twenty ana thirty miles en hour. Passengers woud cay that accused was on his wrong si<*3 of tho road, oassing car* all the way from Trentham. Tho passengers speke to him of the excessive speed. Some witnesses said Cross, who was fatally iniurod, was standing m the most dangerous position on tho road. He was .moving to and fro and just before he was struck had stopped one car and held up his hands to ar.other. One witness said the car was going at more tbr.n £0 • miles an hour, and another said the speed was not more than twenty. One occupant of the car 'said lie had complained to MeDevitt about travelling so fast.