CALLOUS MOTORIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22344, 15 February 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

CALLOUS MOTORIST

OLD MAN LEFT TO DIE Behaviour of a non-stop motorist who loft an old man to die drew sharp words from the South London coroner, Mr. Douglas Cowburn, recently. He was holding an inquest on William Mortimer Douglas, agod 70, of Camberwell Institution, who was knocked down in Peckham late on December 26 by a driver who had not been traced. Charles Humphreys, of Nunhead, who saw the accident, declared that a dark saloon car passed his car at about 25 to 30 miles an hour. He heard a thud, and then found the old man, terribly injured. The coroner remarked that unless the publicity brought forward somebody who could help it was unlikely that the driver would be traced. An adjournment was of little use. Referring to the driver's conduct, he added: "A more wicked and abominable thing could hardly be imagined. I can only hope that he may eventually be traced." The jury returnod a verdict of "accidental death."-