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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1926, Page 3

INQUEST. AUCKLAND, May 13. At the Police Court Alfred .Tames Dickinson was charged with negligently driving a motor car in An/.ae Avenue and thereby causing the death of Frank "Wilson, Mr McKean, 5.M... acting in the dual capacity of magistrate and coroner. As coroner he found death was caused through injuries sustained in a collision between a train and a motor-car driven by Dickinson. On evidence he said lie must find negligence. Accused pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence and was committed for trial on his own surety o! £IOO. A JILTED "LOVER■ CHIMSTCFICECIL I'lay 13. Albert Harrell, married. 31, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment tvjtli hard labour this morning: on a charge of posing as a member of the police force. The prosecution said the man had been jilted while working a a carrier so put on his uniform in order to get round girls. He did not try to get money. HOTEL DANCER. ARRESTED. PARTS, April L The Paris police have arrested an Englishman, whose name is given by the “Journal ” as Thomas Orton, on a charge of complicity in the theft from a fashionable dressmaking house in the Avenue de l’Opera of £I,OOO worth of furs and dresses. The arrested Englishman is said to have been well known at leading Continental hotels, where he attracted attention by his proficiency as a dancer,