Berkshire Chronicle Reading 10-1919

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.W.· J~. ~ENDAlL,_ late serg~ant,'_

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LONDON~ ROAD

THE SNlED OF THE LOR.RY.
P.C. B. Bryan't said on the 1st Octobe r
IL~ ~~ .m. he was ot London Street and
!illv ' . b'eet i~ction . ,,!hen a smal~ boy
1'8ll. up and said he was 'tanted in Pell
Street.
Hore he . saw the lorry IUld the
taxi~\) . (LNIU2);. Th~ lorry ' driye~......h<»
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W&8 slttirig on the 0 nvo....s !l8at; 8&la-. ,(' I
did not bow that I had . knocked & man.
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d~ un6:1 \lveriaken. Il!ld s.topped by this
UI,'" W)trf~
exjl.JlUnOd the lOng boa.rd
a..,l bonnet 0 the lorry. but 'failed' to find
8~ _ bloodstains or ' newly-mode
marks
. Qle l!ospital· , hey found ' the
-t=2r~nd hk. wife. . he ' 9 the . \orr~
III'D.fY Bart.· b
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ham, S:E.. who was kDOeled 4'00 'lIIy •
Tellin8 at ~ sJ)8\!d Of from 16 fI\ '!!(j miles
motor, lcv.ry in London ~<~
DU hour.. lk shouted to the -tl.river to
Oo'tober. lit, and' died .utillilojo.yt1y, ·
mve .teedy, but he qid not
to \.ake
qontinued before the R.ad~ Coroner
8111 notice. At the time there was no reM'
~L. Martin) at the Gue.rdians' OJlleetl
lirht on the lorry. and the headlilthtB
=iday last week.
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were only two small oil lamps. 'rh", food
Ceoil WilkilllOn, of 71, French Stree lorries going thrQufh the t4wn. oven in
Sunbury ... motor drin" aa.id on Octo r the cenUe, W8l'8- al travelling nt 1\ higher
let he was driving .. lorry from Hyde P k speed '!.han usual. Several times be bad
to Newbury. 'ILS a v01unteer driver for t e had to cllook them oa that account. It was
Ministry of Food. It was a three-ton lorr
another policeman from whom ~e driver
loaded with empty milk- ch urns. He h
&IIhd the wn,t. Willd~sdn WIlll perfe tly _
another Jnan with /lim 1. H. Drllry", '
at tho pjne. but lie wM excitlMl, and
"Opon!. but he did not' '-now; where he ." 8 89~ tlIJ@
QPinion to q)f1\ Clf Q man who had
n~w. He had taken a lou! 01 fulL. cb-u
bIlCIl a<ioused of something he had not done.
up to Hyde Park · in tbe morning '
Otrina
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th ',c9sis the,v tried to let lartie
8tarbd on the- return. journey t at 19.30 p.
~ throllll'lI .. qu.iek.I, nit possible.
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He thought they l'eacned Reading 8bo~
could not find ODY local witness of tlle
alier nine. 'I'.he lamp& C)n the 10r.1' we
accident.
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vexy bad ones. )mll they hlld to 8tOp to
By Yr. Kent: .According to tlte con·
\igM- them at Maid8llhea!l. Theie ' we
di,tioll8 that night he ' did think tho lorrY
the best lamps he oou1\3 get, and .with the
WAS bOOng Ilriv6n to the common danger.
he' found it difficult to dri"e. He reme
It w~ a ) vatl' dark night and it had b4iln
beJ'ed plL88ing' two cars in lteadinr whi
,ainiAI'. With the lUoJllps- on t"ilo lol'ry he ,
were movin" .very slowly in the' same dir
doubted ~'f Pte , driver c61!ld ' }lave 8118J1. ,
tion. ' He had: 'tO ' get over cn the ,ottside f ,evl'lll
the bnnnet.
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the road ..•Hil did not _ lIJIyonei at all .
The \n uiry, W8S' again ' aajollrned fo~ a.
- the ' road after they had pa.ssed. the ca • wee
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Ror did hI! bear nn.rone sbout. His 8
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roughlr~ ~jUl' about 1. milee an hour. T e
average peed an Arfny lorry was lIovern
READIN'~
do~ to ris 12- mileS ·Per hour. The lop y
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E-ARTHQU . E.
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at a spOOd from 1:1 to 10ft miles. Tb y •
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no instruotion8 whatever from
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Ministry of Food as to travelling rnlPs.
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WAS
Full inquiry
Sliortlr after ' pa sing the two ; ' cafS
e at Reading on the night of ' ptem her 1.~f4 ~i
pulled up to speak to .. policeman. inqu r- 1I11s l:ieen made bY' Mr . • R, L. . lInw~. :
mg the rdad to Newbury. He Wll~ -lacki Lectnrer 1n Geology at ni.ersity- "'olle' • '
down to ' brighten his l6!DPB when 1\
I R~adi.ng. aDd ho hll . t ned ~ . report ... !I '
Oaugh~ hi!!1 up. ~he drive!, got do)Vn .~d which he saya':-': It ~Illl qui~ tJe!init~ly
sals!" to witne 8, . ' Why dIdn't you t ~ ~rthqu6ke. but Its orlgu} W8 super',""')."
Y.o u·ve IinpcJted son\eon~ down aOd . kJI ~ He o.<Jnl;iuue;\ :-" One (lIi~nilili(( . feotu re ,
him." Wlln
asked blm 'what he ' w/'8 01 thll phenomenon , WItS tts eft'cet ,u)JOn
talkini abOut••aying be had 600n no ~e PeOple to whom oorlhqua1!:es, of the genuine
<p. tbe road, He 8Ilid. :' It 11'0
yo" sort are fu.m.ilinr .. One and "all suw ex:.w be poUoo 'oowa.up and examin~ thc lor y. perieuced indi\"idua)t; w~e ' \In halCDbre' in
but found nothing. He gave hIS name and belief that 0. real 'OOu,mic hoek 'had C)C> .
address, and the nUlU~rof .the lorry, ourred. , '!'lIe rarity of -cases where people '
LT9393, with pnrliculars '" h.B etpploy. out of doors rcooived any lil'nsa,tio!l-"is'. in :
B,e ' went baek to the hospital on the sug- keeping' with 011 rthr{liak tTaditlon: ~enrl)' ~
(!estion o~ ~he polioo, 6ut he ha~ never ,the shook ~'as transmitted thrdu h "the '
_n the .ltlured JDan befor~. HIS seco-lld earth more tha.n through the oir. 4a.in.
driver dld\ not know nythmg a.bou~ the the grent distaDoo over .... hieh the i tur~
matter. 110.4 Willi &II surprised 0, blIDself anceJ&ssecl. and tbe nnr1'()W limits of i\.8
when be beard about it. The ~amps w~ later extent. oro all eharacl'.eristic sefsmio
useless fOil the pnrp<l68 of ll&'hting t<be features. The 'oroo offecte<r (~8 far 1\8 re.-road ab~ but he hod to .do the bes~
oords are anilable) seems to I.Bve been 81
c~uld ~,.th tllem. Some Iorr"!8 were dT~~on belt, f a width af five Ot s.ix. ~s. from
Without liKhts, Whll.te'H!r they oould get Boul'lleID{)ut!i to ~iDllct (nea..,ly 00 mil ),
on the roail nt all 'll'OS uero to m~t the This curious distribution opens I interesting
emergency. He aerv!d for oit year8 111 the problelllS which cannot be diJltu
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Army and Royal Au Force, and drove
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light cora and lorries for two years. Since
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he had beN!
driTina' for the Kiniatry' of }'{uilitiOlls;
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in praetic.. There "e~
endorsemont8 on lIi. li_ , and thIS 'W/I
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NEED 'O F BETTEK HEADLIGHT$.
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By a juryman: The Kialktr1'- pf Tr,..;
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- port would be Teeponll1 ble • for he BI:a,ta 01
:Hading Gaol is to be clO6Cd in bou t .
the 10rrle8. for tMy ' pve tlieDi a1Iy ' 1orl'1, 1Mat;h' tiuie'; and'. U staff will 00 .tran ..
and they bad tlo~~·ou. WKII' it. 11 he \ad ferftcl to Chflmelord, to 'which th.e p crnor
had
......... 'be woald !l,v. bee& ~alrelldy' lODe. At ~t oilly livo
able to
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rOIId.
ra-&lielllt-Onfintiu"ned in t~ build~
By lI,: J[tatj
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k itI8 Iam.itI off ..
, which ha oeeo_odittioh fot j!ti. No
lorry tIui ~
. bd.llo
'ub It va .~n howtrd there In tho
rt!'ItWh
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It'tIt1ty haya .~n .eat to' .•oxrw- Gaol

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"~!ni?-ted .t o suCCooci Mr. Col.lI.... k: i
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THE DIUVf:R'S EVIDENC.

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from the pol. an. one of them took reIbIe
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