SUPREME COURT.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 17. At the Supreme Court here to-day charges of manslaughter arising out of a fatality in lvhyber Pass on August 12th jWcre preferred against two taxicab drivers. Sidney Curry and Rupert J Morris. As the result of being run down'by Curry's car, a tramway employee ,'jolm Patton, was killed, f The evidence was that the two cars came down the hill, and, on approaching an excavation on tho tramway, went on to the right .hand side of the road, Patton being struck by tho second car as he was crossing to the footpath. A verdict of “Not Guilty” was return od in both cases. Patrick Gunn, who had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering and theft, was declared a habitual criminal, and sentenced to two years’ hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1918, Page 2
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144SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1918, Page 2
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