OLD MAN'S DEATH
KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR
AUCKLAND PROSECUTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
When John William Beeston, 69, an inmate of the Salvation Army Home at Epsom, was walking home after church on the evening of Sunday, February 23, he was knocked down by a motorcar and died of his injuries in hospital later. This morning John Reginald Smith appeared in the Police Court on summons before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., charged with negligent driving on the Manukau Road, failing to stop and render assistance, and failing to report the accident to the police. Messrs. R. A. Singer and Bryce Hart appeared for the defendant.
Two young men who were sitting in a side road about 8.50 p.m. on February 23 witnessed the accident. They said the deceased was crossing the road. They chased a car on bicycles and saw it stop in front of a block of flats some distance along the road. They took the number of the car but when they reached it the occupant had left. The night was clear and there was no traffic on the road.
A taxi driver gave evidence of being called to the Manukau Road about 9.30 p.m., where a man he. knew as Fairley entered the taxi and was driven to a house in Market Road and thence to a house in Buckland Road, Epsom. Witness said he now knew this to be the defendant's house.
The case is proceeding.
OLD MAN'S DEATH
Evening Post, Issue 82, 6 April 1936, Page 11
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