Motor Driver Mobbed

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1910, Page 4

Motor Driver Mobbed

ATTACKED BY fXI'TR! ATFT) CROWD.

AFTKR FATAL ACCIDENT

A motor 'bus driver was set upon and roughly treated by a number of people in the Commercial road liimehoiise, London. 10.. wlmi his bus knocked down and killed Jacob I'airbloom, a gen ten, the soi of a joulrnpymaii tailor. At the honest the mother of tho hov said he went, out to plav and she heard lie had been killed. Crying bitterh, she exclaimed, "The driver of the 'bus is my boy's murderer." Eggerton 1 a"ry, an artist, who was ridiirr insic.c tho bus, said the bov ran out from behind a van and rail in front of the vehicle. Tho driver, n ibis opinion, could not avoid the- accident. Hie Coroner: The Jrivei was rather roughly treated, vasn't he. Hitne.ss: \ es, all manmr of things were thrown at •him—bottles cups and saucers. The erow<i was mostly composed of foreigners. lOdward I rswell, a watchman, saic. that the boy, together with others, was riding behind a van, and that the bus was travelling at a verv nodera te pace. P.O. Partridge said the demeanour of -the crowd wis so hostile that he found it necessa'v to protect the driver. Frederick: Hid"lean, of Malmesbu.ry road, Canning [own, the driver of the bus said he was travelling at the rate <!t hve or six miles an hour vdien the accident- occurred. He had been a driver for five years, and hid a clean heense. Ho was verv roi-Wi--I.V handled by the crowd,' sewaJ members of which gave him .-nine nasty kicks. The Coroner said the conduct of the crowd was' inns'; reprehensib e The jury retucn*l a aeidiet of Accidental death," and S,°me!' ° <lriver fro " 1 . all