HIT AND BUN ALLEGED
MAH TO STAND TRIAL [Per United Press Association.] WHAN6AREI, October 8. John Edwin Guy, a builder, was yesterday committed for trial in the Supreme Court on three charges of failure to stop after an accident, failure to ascertain if any damage had been done, and failure to render assistance. This was the sequel to an incident in the early hours of Juno 1, when Mrs Florence Ellen Anderson was knocked down by a motor car while walking home from a dance at Kaikohc, receiving fatal injuries. Witnesses declared that a truck similar to that driven by accused passed them when they were a short distance from where the injured woman was found. Accused, in a statement to the police which be did not sign, said he drove the truck through Kaikohe en route to Opononi to Wliangarci. but did not see or strike anyone on the road. . The case was heard at Kaikohc.
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Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 9
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157HIT AND BUN ALLEGED Evening Star, Issue 23701, 8 October 1940, Page 9
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