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MOTOR CYCLIST'S DEATH.
Scarborough-road Collision:
In the. Perth Courthouse yesterday Mr.
H. Casper, J.P., Acting Coroner, began
an inquest concerning the death of Alex
ander Brown Burton Stevens (26), of
Federation-street, Mt. Hawthorn.
Evidence showed that about 8.15 p.m.
on February 28 the deceased was riding
a motor cycle along the Scarborough
road, Double View, when it crashed into
the back of a utility truck being driven
by Robert Disbrey, greengrocer, of Scar
borough. Albert Cook (27), of Hovea
terrace, South Perth, a prominent player
of the Perth Football Club, was pillion
passenger on the motor cycle, which was
travelling to Scarborough. Stevens and
Gook were taken by ambulance to the
Perth Hospital, where Stevens was found
to be dead. Cook was admitted suffering
from a fracture of the left leg and other
injuries. He testified yesterday that the
cycle passed a motor car travelling in
the same direction and he had no recol
lection of what happened afterwards
until he was being taken to Perth in the
ambulance. Disbrey said in evidence that
he had been driving towards Perth, had
turned the truck around to call at a
house, and it was travelling slowly in
the direction of Scarborough before
stopping when there was a bump at the
back of the truck. A motor cycle then
"flew past" the truck on' the driving side.
He got out of the truck and saw two
forms in the sand on the opposite side
of the road.
The hearing was adjourned to 9.45 a.m.
next Thursday, when the Acting Coroner
will hear the evidence of Eric Ransom, of
Canterbury-terrace, Victoria Park, the
driver of the car which the motor cycle
passed before the collision.
Sergeant Delfs is assisting the Act
ing Coroner. Miss M. Battye is
appearing for the relatives " of
the deceased, and Mr. L. W.
Jackson (instructed by Messrs. Jackson,
McDonald, Connor and Ambrose) for the
driver of the utility truck, Dlsbrey.
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