DEATH OF CONSTABLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 12

DEATH OF CONSTABLE.

BICYCLE STRUCK BY TAXI.

DRIVER HELD NOT TO BLAME. [by telegraph.—press association.] CHPJSTCHUKCH, Tuesday. Evidence at the inquest into the death of Constablo Henry Henderson, who was injured in a street accident in which his bicycle and a taxi-cab were concerned, on May 26, took an unexpected turn. D. Wares, a blacksmith, stated that after the accident, which occurred in the early evening, the constablo told him ho had had no light on his bicycle when it was struck by the taxi. A man in the crowd told the constable that ho would see it was his business that a lamp was put on the bicycle. Witness admitted to Sub-Inspector Eawards that he did not give these facts to the police when interviewed. Another witness, a. constable, said there was a lamp on the bicycle when bo examined it after the collision. The coroner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, returned a verdict that death was due to pneumonia contracted at the Christchurch Public Hospital five weeks after being knocked over by a taxi at the intersection of Fitzgerald Avenuo and Hereford Street. " In my opinion," the coroner added, " the evidence docs not reveal that the driver of the taxi, George R. Stribling, is to blame for the accident."