NO PROSECUTION

Southland Times, Issue 19567, 3 June 1925, Page 5

NO PROSECUTION

SYDNEY MOTORING TRAGEDY. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, June 2. The Crown Law authorities have estimated that a nolle prosequi will be en- ' tered in the case in which Joseph Boland ' was committed for trial in connection ' with deaths of the Gurrs. An elderly couple, Mr and Mrs Gurr ' were run down by a motor car and killed ■ near Sydney on March 21. At 9 o’clock the previous evening Mr Gurr, who was an ironmonger, aged seventy-one, living at Burwood, and his wife, aged sixty, were crossing the Parramatta road, the main county highway, a few miles out of the city, when a big blue car swooped down upon them. According to the story of a cyclist who witnessed the tragedy, the driver of the car appeared to see the Gurrs, for the brakes were applied, and there were skid marks on the road for about 28 yards in front of where the couple were run down. The motorist, was said to have looked round hastily after knocking down the couple, and then made off. The cyclist stopped and attended to the injured people. There terrible injuries, the couple being almost unrecognisable. They were rushed to hospital by the ambulance, but Mr Gurr was dead on arrival, and Mr Gurr died an hour later. The police broadcasted a description of the car said to have knocked down the couple to all police stations. On the Saturday the Goulburn police visited a garage, and inspected a car answering this description. It was found to have a broken headlight, the glass of which corresponded with a broken piece picked up at the scene of the tragedy. A garage owner gave the clue to the police. A few hours after the fatality the car, with the engine very hot, called at his garage, and the driver asked for a bucket of water, which he threw over his red-hot brake. The car then sped off in the direction of Goulburn. Joseph Boland (twenty-seven, motor mechanic) and Francis William Boland (motordriver), both of Goulburn, were afterwards arrested.