THE SANDON' FATALITY.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 592, 24 March 1908, Page 4

THE SANDON' FATALITY.

VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Tho adjourned inquest on Lawrence Hatherly Walters, the victim of the Sandon cycling fatality, was hold yesterday afternoon before Captain Mowlem, District Coroner, and a jury of which Mr C. M. Ross was foreman. The medical evidence and that of Edward Hatherly Walters, father of the deceased lad, was taken at the original enquiry, which was adjourn, ed to obtain the evidence of the occupants of the trap with which deceased collided. The evidence given yesterday showed that the deceased and two boys named Read and Murphy were cycling on the main road, and mot a trap without lights. Read and Murphy got safely })ast the vehicle, but deceased ran straight into the horse, which fell on him, and boy and bicycle Imd to be dragged from beneath the animal. Evidence was given by the two lads Read and Murphy, and also by William Young and Maria Olliver, occupants of the trap. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a rider to the effect that had lights been burning on the vehicle the accident might not have occurred.