Trench in Baikal Road and Red Lights In H. M. Police Gourt on November 17, Mr. C, H. Haines, the Registrar, continued the inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sgt. William) James Heritage of the Shanghai Municipal J. Police who died on November 9 following injuries which he received in an accident on the night of November 4, in Baikal Road, near Jensen Road, Sgt. F. 8, Burton deposed that whilst going along Baikal Road, near Jensen Road, witness, who was driving his motor cycle' conte bination in front, noticed a dim red light about 10 or 12 yards in front of him, There was a trench which had been dug across a major part of the road. The light was obscure ed by the eross-bar of a wooden guard on the west side, He therefore thought the obstruction was on the north side of the road. There were no other lighted lamps, Witness had passed the trench by swerving sharply to avoid crashing into the guard when he heard a crash, He looked round and saw that something had happened to Sgt. Heritage, who had been following. He noticed that deceased was no longer following and that Sgt. Heritage's engine could not be heard. Accordingly he turned and went back. He saw deceased lying on his back against the south-[ern carp, whilst his cycle was against the curb, facing Deceased was unconscious but was not bleeding. Witness tried to bring him round but failed, He then put deceased in his sidecar and took him to the Reserve Unit depot and from there deceased was moved to the General Hospital.
Continuing, witness said he was travelling at' the rate of 20 or 25 miles an your, deceased following. They were not racing, When witness passed the trench, he narrowly missed a pile of' stones, on which there was no light, The road at this place was not well-lighted, in fact the lighting was very bad, It was dark and rather cloudy on the night of the, accident, In answer to Mr. R. E. 8, Gregson, watching the case on behalf the Shanghai Telephone Ca,, withis cycle and that deceased carried the ordinary police motor cycle electric lights, one dim and the other very bright. The latter was not usually used, The cycles were old and knocked about and, if one got 85 miles an hour, he would be doing very well.
Witness did not remember when ther he gave any warning whilst approaching the trench, Actually, he had to pass the trench on the wrong side of the road. He could have drawn up in front of the trench after he saw the red light. He could not say what route deceased took: he might have boon following witness. There was 09 other traffic in sight at the time of the accident. They took the Baikal Road route because it was shorter, When Sgt, Frankish went to the place, he found a broken Jamp in the south-western end of the trench and.a lighted lamp on the east side. The pile of stones was on the west. side.
Probationary Sgt. C, Frankisi attached, to Wayside Station, said the light watchman told' him that he did not know whether all the lights were Jit because he had so many to attend to, Witness told him to go and get more lights which he did. ing-dong, the light watchman, said that there was no trafic on the road at the time and it sei ed'to him that the cycles were going very fast. He was no judge of dietanees or speed.
The hearing was adjourned. ous response to the appeal of this worthy institution as the funds of the hospital are not sufficient for its urgent need, It is estimated that it will cost Tis, 225,000 to rebuild the hospital and' Tls. 125,000 have _already deen pledged from America, A deficit. of Ts. 100,000 "remains which is needed to complete the rebuilt hospital. The firet unit, which will be begun on Saturday, is known as the Liang Memorial Maternity Hospital,
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