MOTORIST FOR TRIAL
FATAL NEGLIGENCE ALLEGED TWO CHILDREN KILLED Press Associatio?i. GISBORNE, Monday. In the Police Court to-day, before Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., a Maori, Tom Dennis, appeared on charges of negli gently driving a motor-call*, thereby causing the deaths of Edna and Faith Third, aged eight and five years respectively. The children were knocked down by a car driven by Dennis as they were crossing the road to school on February 1. Dennis was also charged with driving in a manner dangerous to the public, but the hearing of the second charge was deferred. Dennis pleaded not guilty to the first charge and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 284, 21 February 1928, Page 11
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113MOTORIST FOR TRIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 284, 21 February 1928, Page 11
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