ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE
TWO MOTORISTS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
Dunedin, Last Night. •At the Police Court, Balclutha, to-day, William Martin and Edward Carnegie were committed for trial un a charge of negligently driving a motor car on June 11th, thereby causing the death of William James Cochrane, 12 years of age. The evidence showed that when near a bridge, the car was travelling at about 12 miles an hour and came unexpectedly on a dray behind which the boy was walking, and though (.be brakes were quickly applied, Cochrane got jammed between the dray and the car, internal haemorrhage resulting, from which he subsequently died in the Dunedin Hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2911, 18 July 1925, Page 3
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107ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2911, 18 July 1925, Page 3
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