CYCLIST'S DEATH
MOTORIST FOR TRIAL
NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, April 7.
,i Kasper ;Gray, Webley,., city - building contractor, will ?tand.Vti;ial- in the Supreme Court on a charge of negligent driving in Marshland Road on February 24; thereby- causing :the -death; of a cyclist,.Joseph.Quinn?' Police evidence - bn? the; chajge ;WM'hear d'• in the Magistrate's X Court" tpd'jiy': betoire''Mr. E.C. Levvey, S-M.,. after which .Webley pleaded not guilty and was committed for-trial. -. ■
Mr.- Levvey also sat as Coroner to conduct concurrently^ an inquest into the. death of Quinn. Quinn was a road contractor, aged 63, of 494 Madras Street. The Coroner's verdict was that he? died of hemorrhage after tearing of the heart and main blood vessels coming from the heart, an injury • suffei'ed'when he was run into and knock-; ;ed?oyer by a car owned and driven by Wiebley in Marshland Road. ':
faced a. second charge of driving a motor-car while he was? intoxicated. This charge was adjourned sine die to be heard after the Supreme Court sitting. Bail of £200 was allowed with one surety of £200.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 83, 8 April 1938, Page 19
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