KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1929, Page 15

KNOCKED DOWN BY MOTOR

DRIVER SAID TO BE DRUNK, ’ ' PEDESTRIAN NOW IN HOSPITAL. Charged with being intoxicated while driving a motor car on the Main South Road on Thursday night and with causing bodily injury to James Baldpck, Charles William Erwood, motor salesman, appeared before Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., yesterday. A; On’ the application of Senior-Sergeant McCrorie a remand till Wednesday was granted. Baldock was in hospital, ho said. \ Bail was asked for by Mr. R. H. Quilf liam and was fixed in self £5O and one. surety of £5O. Baldock’s condition was described aal “moderately satisfactory” when inquiry-: was made at the hospital lust night. An elderly man, he has wounds on the scalp,; left hand and ankle. . ,

M ith the body badly knocked about.:' and the inside in disorder, the car was found on the grass, near a' .telegraph/ pole, by two constables who proceeded/ along the South Road on receiving information that there had been an acci-l/ dent. Erwood was in the driver's seat;-' He allegedly told the police that he had"; struck a man on the road, near Oakura,/ and that his car turned over several/ times. His car, which was a small onej used for demonstrations, w*as then.; driven to where it was found by the/ constables. . '

When he was taken to the police sta ; ; ? tion it is said he became violent and ■ noisy and kicked the door of his cell J repeatedly. t Information later came to the police that James Baldock was receiving atten<j tion from Dr. Fookes at his boardinghouse in the town and that he had.beerl’<: knocked down by a motor car on the J Main South Road- near Windy Point. J He had a scalp wound on the left side ! of his head and there were cuts on his £ left hand, while he complained of pains -;, in his back and left ankle. He was suf<£ fering from shock and his removal to> the hospital was ordered. . . . As this was apparently the result of ;? the accident referred to by Erwood, the.fc police again went out to the coastal >. road, with the result that marks-f of/i; blood are said to have been found oil;.' the tarred surface. Later similar marks, it is alleged, were seen on the car, inside were discovered Baldock’s hat and ' pipe lost at the time of the accident. As he was walking towards the town . • on the left side of the road about p.m., said Baldock, he noticed the lighta>g of a car coming up behind him. Ho moved further over, but the car him and knocked him down. He decl in-., ed an offer from the driver to take him in to the town and walked as far as '?<■ Breakwater Road, where he caught a tram. ' .*