NOT GUILTY.
CHARGE OF NEGLIGENT DRIVING DISMISSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A charge of negligent driving of a motor lorry, thereby causing the death of' an elderlV- Maori ynamed Wetere Paki, on December 30, was preferred in the Police Court against Claude Francis Stephens and dismissed by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., without calling on the defence. The Maori, who was very feeble, was crossing at the junction of the two streets when the lorry struck him, breaking one leg and he died in hospital. An eye witness said the Maori hesitated when in front of the lorry.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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100NOT GUILTY. Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 5
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