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THE HONGKONG

BOAT-GIRL KILLED BY BUS.

CORONER REGARDS CASE

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1930.

OBITUARY.

SAILING THROUGH A TROUBLED SEA.

GERMAN BANKER FORMERLY OF HONGKONG.

Berlin, Sept. 30.

WOMAN'S METAPHOR FOR

THE LABOUR PARTY.

London, Oct. 6.

Miss Susan 'Lawrence, presiding

AS MYSTERIOUS.

The death is announced of Herr Proceedings in connexion with an accident have been taken against Guatay Rust, for about 30 years the driver of an Aberdeen bus and with the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank the owning Company, it was stated and since 1928" director of the at the annual conference of the yesterday at the close of a

bank at Shanghai, where, aș în Labour Party, at Llandudno, said Coroner's inquiry held by Mr. various other places in the Far that a minority Government meant Lindsell into the death of Chengst, he played a leading role in leaping from one hairbreadth Tai, a boat-girl, who was killed on the German community. The do- September 24 through being run ceased who was 54 years of age escape to another, and meant steer- over by a bus on the main roadwent on furlough some months ago ing a Bill through Parliament by in order to have a well-earned tacking against a headwind to the opposite the Aberdeen Dock.

The jury in the case returned a his home in Neu-Strelitz.-Trana- from the jetty; while "most galling rest. He died of heart failure 'at necompaniment of much advice verdict of "Death by Misadven- Ocean Kue Min. ture."

of all" it meant dependence on Herr Rust was born on July 6. 1876 in Neu-Strelitz. When he doubtful and uncertain allies. was quite young he came to China, As regards the House of Lords, joining the bank at Hongkong in Miss Lawrence predicted that the 1901. He has been manager of Labour Party sooner or later would the branches at Tsinanfu, Peking,have to take up this great constitu- and Hankow and was

tional question.-Reuter. appointed chief manager of the bank at the beginning of 1928 when he came to Shanghai. Herr Rust took a pro- minent part in the activities of the German community here.

Evidence given by a fisherman was to the effect that the deceased was following another girl when she vanished beneath the wheels of the bus, which had overtaken them from the direction of Hongkong.

A barber returning to his shop at Aberdeen on the bus, said the vehicle swerved to the right-hand side of the road and grazed the wall of the Dockyard. He next felt a bump and the rear of the bus went up. He then saw a life- less body lying ten feet behind the vehicle.

The conductor of the bus de clared that the horn was sounded immediately before the vehicle swerved.

Brakes Not in Order.

Acting Sub-Inspector S. C. Saunders testified that the foot brake was not in good working order when he tested it after the

accident.

On going over the scene of the accident. he discovered a long wheel mark curving, for a distance of 50 feet, from the centre of the road to the Dockyard wall. then out again until it ended within four feet of the spot where the girl was lying. There were marks on the gutter and on the wall where the bus had grazed it.

The Coroner: On those marks, apart from the evidence given, can you deduce anything as to the cause of the accident?

Sub-Inspector Saunders: J should say he swerved first to avoid i the girl. The buses are fitted with life-guards between the front and back wheels on either side. This made it impossible for anyone struck down to get under the bus From the side. If deceased was run over by this bus; she must have been knocked down by the front and got under it between the two front wheels, or else she had been run over by one of the front wheels. It was quite possible she had been dragged some distance before being run over.

He was a member of the Ger- man Chamber of Commerce and the German Clubs in Shanghai. Generous, hard-working, courage- ous, his personality and character won him a host of friends who will mourn his passing. He had been ill for a considerable time before he left Shanghai but it was not until last March that he ceased his strenuous duties to rest. He leaves behind him his widow and a brother, both in Germany. Frau Rust accompanied her husband on his recent voyage home.

pulled up 20 feet short of the spot where he found the body lying. He thought the bus was at the time travelling at 18 miles at least, The opinion he formed was that the two girls were dodging about, and that the driver after avoiding one of them, recovered, and then knocked down the other girl.

Driver's Record,

The driver's record was

duce, and it was shown that he had eight convictions since 1926, two of these being for dangerous driving and two for negligent driv- ing.

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evidence, conflicting as it is, that will justify you in bringing any such verdict. I must warn under the circumstances that your only safe verdict is an open verdict: that we find this girl so knocked down by a motor-bus in circum- stances which we cannot exactly pro-determine. Or, if you find on the whole that there was no criminal blame attached to the driver, you can return a verdict of 'misadven- ture. That verdict, of course, would free him from further res- In his summing-up. the Coroner ponsibility. If you wish to make said that in view of the conflicting any recommendations as regards evidence before the Court, he the testing of the brakes. of these thought the jury would agree with buses, you are, of course, entitled him that it was almost impossible to do so. The position is quite to determine the exact circum-clear to you? stances under which this young woman had met her death. It ap peared quite obvious, said his Wor- ship, that she was knocked down and run over by this motor-bus. But the circumstances which led to her being run down and over would undoubtedly be wrapped in mystery, The driver appeared he applied the footbrake, which to have told one story to the Police pulled up the vehicle in 72 feet; on the scene immediately after the wherens if the brake had been in accident. He had now gone back

30 feet would on what proper condition,

he previously said, and have been ample for the purpose.

gave another story, and that story At 12 miles an her, which was to a certain extent tallied with the the average speed for buses onory told by two other witnesses. that road, the bus in question, in

Although the driver had been the condition in which its foot telling lies as regards this accident, brake was found, would have taken said the Coroner, that should not 35 or 36 feet, as compared with be allowed to weigh in the minds the eight feel in which it could of the jury unless they were satis- have pulled up if the footbrakefied that he was guilty of such gross was in good working order. The negligence in driving the bus at handbrake was in good working liable to a criminal charge, that that particular moment as to make

In reply to a question from the

a charge of mans- Coroner, witness stated that, even laughter. if the bus had been travelling, at

Company's Responsibility, 20 miles an hour, and had the foot- brake been correct and, of course,

"I may tell you gentlemen of the

Girls Dodging About.

When he tested the bus the same afternoon, witness continued, driv- ing at a speed of 20 miles an hour,

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Mr. C. Lauritsen (Foreman of the Jury) replied in the affirmative, and in returning the decision, of the jury, said: "We return a verdict of 'Death by Misadventure,' and we would like to add a rider. No doubt these drivers are ordered. to take these buses out as they are. We think it is due to the Company to see that brakes are in good work. ing order before the buses are sent out every morning.""

The Coroner: I don't know if proceedings were taken out against the driver or Company.

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