The inquest on Margaret Domory \bbott and Barbara Gabbott, the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Gabbott of 1213 Rue Lafayette, who' died on the morning of February 26 as a result of a collision between their perambulator and a garbage lorry and trailer belonging to the French Municipal Council, was continued on March 4 by the Registrar, sitting as coroner, in Il. M. Police Court, Mrs, 'Olga Leosnoff, a Russian Indy, testified that" she was about six yards behind the po ambulator in which the children were when the lorry passed her. She was not very far from the pavement. The first truck passed the baby' carriage but the trailer} caught it. The amah was pushing the carriage with one baby inside and the other was walking level with her on the outside of her.
The large wheel of the trailer caught the small wheel of the baby carriage which collapsed, The rear fof the carriage was pushed in towards the sidewalk by the blow. She had seen the amah pushing the carriage in the same way every) ay, sometimes four times a day, when she was taking her boy to) school. The baby carriage was in the roadway, abet feet from the pavement and going straight! ahead, After the accident a motor car came up and the amah put one child in and a Chinese put the other in and she saw nothing more. The was in the roadway when she but later when she passed 30 am. it was on the footpath.
she thought the lorry was turning to the left and came closer in to the pavement so that the trailer hit the baby carriage. She thought the blow had come from the rear wheel of the trailer, Tt was damp at the time but not raining and the hood of her ricsha had not been up. The truck was going slowly, bhut she could not estimate the speed. Her riesha was about the same distance from the footpath as the perambulator. There was quite a lot of other traffic, with motor cars coming towards het bhut at the exact moment of impact. there was no motor car level with the truck. Under cross-examination the said she was not sure that the truck was turning and reaffirmed that one child was in the pram and the other walking beside it with one liliand on the handle bars, "ram en the Footpath Inspr. Boris Yakorlef, traffic inspector in the French Pol then called, He stated thi been informed Pottier, and at the scene sith a earniers ear. Photographs were taker humorous measurements made.
When he first came to the scene Footpath, and ident the truck. the the corner of Route these people both on the spot and afterwards in the station. The lorry. and the perambulator were left just they were until 5 p.m. the same day. Ite had een unable to trace Mrs, Leosnoff, the previous witness.
We then went at some length into the measurements of the lorry and trailer, his figures showing that the rear wheel of the trailer was wider than the front, Te produced maps which he had made. These maps were to scale, he stated, but the croy drawn on them was not. knew that children The amah said that all she
were knocked down. There is tone crossroad between the house and Rovte Pichon, she told the and while she had started out on the footpath, she went en to. the road xt this across-road. The foot. ath was much being repaired.
She repr abet three fect fron the foo the way and she did not 1 were many cars coming, along the rood at the time. the prim from behind and both children were inside at the time. She accounted for her own escape by the fae: that the truck hit the middle of the pram. After that she was crazy and could not remember an,- thing about the accident, 'Sino Jen-yung, P. C. 109 in the French Police, said the chauffeur did not know' of the accident and went on until witness stopped him.
The inquest was adjourned.
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