Walling To Stand His Trial

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 8

Walling To Stand His Trial

, ♦ * (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special' Wellington, Representative.) WHEN Alexander Colemari left Wellington m a motor car with, a party, of friends' for the Otaki races on the King's Birthday, he little dreamt that tragedy loomed large m the near future. '• "When half-way between Tawa Flat and Johnsonville, on the return journey, where the road winds round a hill face, with a frowning gully on the other side, Fate took charge and the car plunged madly over the side, somersaulted several times m its descent and landed at the bottom a broken and -twisted wreck. Death had' taken toll of one life, for Mrs. Helen Telfer sustained a broken neck and expir ed a few moments after. And now after several remands, William John Walling, a carrier of Wellington, has had to face a charge of recklessly driving a car, thereby causing the death of' Mrs. Telfer. it is alleged that when passing Coleman's car at the point where the machine went over" the bank, Walling touched the front right wheel of the car with his rear mudguard. Walling, m his statement, denied that he passed the car, ' but arrived at the scene of the accident: after it had occurred. In the Wellington Magistrate's Court before Magistrate E. Page} Lawyer Perry maintained there was no case to answer, for even if Waiting's car had passed the other and while „ doing so the tourer had gone over the bank, the driver of the touring car showed' contributory negligence, m that he failed - to move over to, the left. , ' , The evidence had shown there were three feet to spare, the driver of the tourer admitting he did not move over one inch. ' t - - ' . ' Magistrate Page thought* there was a case to answer, but at the same time refrained fr.om commenting on the evidence as brought forward. Walling was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allowed as before.. ■S s » i