GARDENER'S TRAGIC FATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14808, 11 October 1911, Page 8

GARDENER'S TRAGIC FATE.

KILLED BY A TAXICAB. . Chaeles Goldsmith, . a gardener, in the employ of Mrs, Hellaby, of Mountain Road, ; v was knocked down by-a taxicab at Epsom late. on Monday : night, ; and : was billed aI;V most instantly. / , . Deceased was a' passenger by an Epscm car, and he got oft the car,,at the Owen's v Road stopping-place.- It is said that the 'man alighted in safety 'and crossed at the | back of the car in order- to reach the pave^ '•• irient." when -he was knocked down by the taxicab, 1 which was going ''.fin 4 the direc- : tion of the city. : ; Dr. Dudley was. sum- - moned.'.but the man was dead ,by the, time the doctor- arrived. . . . : ,/> . Goldsmith had : been to His Majesty's Theatre- with his brother' on 1 the night of 1- the■ accident, and when -the play^was-over deceased' and his brother ' parted, * the ' lat- :,' ter boarding a Dominion Road car and de- • .'. ceased an Epsom car. :" .Next morning the , brother ; was informed of. the dreadful, fate _;., that ha^ s overtaken his relative. >.-. -. : . •L*he driver of the taxicab; John Mercer, sfjates that tfr«re was no possibility of * averting - the accident', the whole thing happened so suddenly. .The taxicab, he , / . says,'" was travelling * at quite an ordinary rate of: speed when deceased' walked from ■ "■*• behind -■ the■ tramaxr. * -•' The passengers ;in the car from which deceased alighted were unaware' 'oi the- accident until another . tramcar, "caught /up ti to them, when they . .- were ; informed (of .what had , happened to ■■•■..- their fellow passenger. ..,-*' .- -V* The Coroner opened an inquest yester- .«>' day 'afternoon,' wraich was adjourned after evidence of identirftcatJon was taken. - The funef^ : take place at 2.30 o'clock to-morrow /afternoon, when the Vmembers of the JPori*onby .Druids' Lodge, , "of which' body decebsHj '* was a highly- ' respected -member,'" 'attend. ; J l'WM——i—W—■^^■y— M> :