DISAPPEARED IN DUST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15658, 11 July 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

DISAPPEARED IN DUST.

(RUNAWAY EOAD HOG| MYSTERY. The brutal and inhuman conduct on 'the part of motorists who drive on after knocking person* down has been in evidence in London. No less than five such cases have been recorded during the first few months of this year. At a recent inquest on Henry Clifford TyreU, who was run into by an unknown motor-car while cycling with a girl friend in Baring Road, Lee, S.E., on the evening of April 11, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against a person or persons unknown."

Mr. TyreUs companion, Alias Caroline Wells, who was thrown from he- bicycle and injured, said that she was cycling in front of lyrell, who was close to the kerb, their lamps were lit and she had a reflector on her machine, though Tyrell had none. It was a very bright night. No hooter was sounded by the car. Her companion, she added, called to her to keep right in, as a motor-car was coming up behind. At that moment she heard a terrible crash. Then something struck her on the right elbow and she was thrown into a hedge. Afterward* she saw the motor-car disappearing in a cloud of dust.

A Juror: Are you certain it was a motor-car? Do you think it might have been a motor-cycle and side-car:'— cannot say that. I only went by the sound of it as it was disappearing. The Juror: The back looked like a car' —Yes.

Detective-Inspector Brown told the coroner that he had been unable to got any further evidence. Exhaustive inquiries had been made.

The coroner, in summing up, said therewas an old maxim that silence gives consent, and it was impossible to suppose that the people in the car could have been in ignorance of what occurred.

The jury recommended that every vehicle on the road should have a red light at the back.