DEATH OF CYCLIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 115, 18 May 1931, Page 6

DEATH OF CYCLIST

TRAGEDY NEAR PATEA j MAN ARRESTED YESTERDAY FACES GRAVE CHARGE TO-DAY As he was found with his face crushed in. ami his right arm and right leg broken. Stewart Carlyle Humphries must Have been killed instantly when he was struck by a car on the main road two miles north of Patea close 011 midnight on Saturday. Humphries about eighteen years of age, was cycl ing to Kakaramea, where he. was cm ployed by Air Tarrant farmer. At. seven o’clock yesterday morning the Wanganui Police Station received a telephone message from Constable Kelly, of Patea. who reported the oc • urrence. It is stated that a heavy crash was heard by Me Gilligan resid ing nearby, ten minutes before mid night. A car pulled up and a voice asked if everything was all right. Then another voice replied in the affirmative. Later a car was seen to drive on to Patea with no lights. A youth is said to have witnessed th- 1 accident. When the area was searched by th« police and Air Gilligan, the body was found. Also the police had in their possession a piece ot a rim from the headlight of a motor car. found at the same place. A bicycle lamp was found on the left-hand side of the road with the wick turned up. At six o’clock vesteiday afternoon Norman Tinney, 33 years of age, married, a slaughterman of Patea, was arrested by Detective Walsh in company with Constable Kelly. He will be charged at Patea this morning with recklessly driving a motor vehicle, thereby causing the death of Stewart Humphries. The deceased boy, Humphries, was an orphan, but bad an uncle. Constable Fry, who is stationed at Otorahanga, and an aunt, Airs Fred Stupples, Alanukau, near Otaki.