Reginald Thomas Ryton, proprietor of the Auto-Palac? and was then called. saw the moter immediately after the accident, ani in his opinion, judging from damage, it was extremely unlikely that the riesha could have contained Jo heavy man when it was struck.
mined by Mr. Maitland, estimated the speed sar, judging from the damage, as at from ten to 16 miles an hour only.
Asked by Mr. Maitland how Jong, it should take a Morris-Cowley car och as defendant's to pull up, with four wheel brakes, going at a speed lof from ten to 16° miles an hour, witness said the very, shortest time was three times the car's own length, or about 40 feet.
Sergt. G. W. Salt, of the Durham. Light Infantry, said he was on Garrison police' duty on the night jin question. St. Cafe was} out of bounds to soldiers in uniforms, and at about 10.30 p.m. he wert to that cafe to see if this order was being observed. 'There were 8 ber of soldiers present, and he took aly their names. Gunner Faulkner's name was among them. His proper duty would have doen to have cleared the place of troops, but had only one man with' him considered discretion the better part of valour, and stayed to see that no-one got into mischief. At half past ten the deceased had been drinking heavily, and at about two o'clock in the morning he was intoxicated that witness ordered his man to put him into a riesha and send him back to billets, The Danger of Ricshas Replying to Mr. Gregson, witness said the troops had been warned to give ricshas a wide barth, as there was always a danger that they would be taken to places to which they did not want to go. Ho himself had jumped out of riestiasson throe occasions because he was being taken in the wrong direction.
Gunner Letts, also of the 12th Pack Battery, said he was in deceased's company at St. George's cafe on the night in question, and deceased was very intoxicated.
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