AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, December 17. At the Supremo Court Patrick Gunn, who hnd pleaded guilty to breaking and catering and theft, was declared an habitual criminal, and sentenced to two years' hard labour on each charge, the sentences to.run concurrently. Charges of manslaughter arising out of a fatality in Khyber Pass on August 12 were preferred against two taxicah drivers, Sidney Corey and Rupert .1. Morris. As a result of being run down by Carey's car, a tramway employee, named John Patton, was lulled.- The evidence was to tho effect that the two cars came down the hill, and on approaching an excavation on Hie tramwaj lino went on to tin: right-hand side of the road, Patton being struck by tlit second car as he was crossing the footpath. A verdict of not guilty was re, turned in botli cases.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 6
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144AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 6
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