SUPREME COURT
BY TKMSKRAPII —PKIt PUKSS ASSOCIATION. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. NELSON, November 26. At the Supreme Court to-dnv, before Justice MacGregor, the bearing commenced ot charges against Leonard William Field, on alternate counts of manslaughter, by causing the death of Lynda Effie Hunter, and of on using her death by negligently driving. The facts of the case are that early on the morning of the 27th September last a number ol people, alter attending a haehelors’ hall at Nelson, were proceeding in ears to Richmond to a supper party. The accused s ear, ill which the deceased was among the passengers. while attempting to pass another car driven by Dr Hoag, going in the same direction, crashed into an electric livht pole at a street iiitoresection, at the foot of College Hill, the girl Hunter receiving iuiuries Irom which she subsequently died. No fresh evidence was adduced and the Court rose after the case for the Crown finished.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1925, Page 3
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