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Negligent Driving Charge
(By TeiegraDli-
HAMILTON, Last Night. Sentences of six months' hard labour on each of two charges of negligentJv driving a mobor car on November 7, and thereby causing. the death of Roginald Jack Taylor, and of failing to stop to reuder assistance, were imposed in the Supreme Court to-day on liu ginald Hogarth, aged 23, a rabbiter of Putaruru, the sentences to be concurrent. The cancellation of prisoner'a driving liceiice was also ordered and he was prohibited from holding another for five years. Prisoner pleaded guilty in the Lower Court this week to knocking Taylor over and killing him on the HamiltonCambridge road on tho evening of November 7. He stated that the reason why he did not stop was that "he lost his head. ' ' The prisoner gave himself up to tho police when he heard that the man had died. %
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 7
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