DRIVE WITH DEAD PASSENGER
A drunken motorist, who drove two miles with a dead man in the back seat, was sentenced to .eighteen months’ hard labor at 'Winchester Assizes for manslaughter. The car collided with buttress of a bridge, and the driver, Percy Bardy (thirty-six) of Farnborough, drove on, unaware that his passenger, John Russell Little, of Croydon, had struck his head against the masonry and was dead- The discovery was made whbn he drove to an hotel, and was found to he drunk*
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Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 3
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84DRIVE WITH DEAD PASSENGER Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 3
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