MOTORIST FOR TRIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 16

MOTORIST FOR TRIAL

LITTLE GIRL’S DEATH NEGLIGENT DRISING CHARGE Thst the cauK of ch : s state wac a f-aStU’C of tc* 6F . oa.weed by c-e r-g krioskec/ Frar«t a Ciarcfioe Beresfonl Power, Aat the yerdict of the coroner, Wr. F. K. the Court yesterisay, after the .rsuen : rrto the ceatn c* a gbi, year* old, who c ed as a result of an see ; dert in Lucerne Roao, Remuera, on April 15. f T'HE drireT of the car was at the A same time charged with negligent cri-vag, catusing the death of the girL He was committed to the tfuprene Coart for triaL Ch:Bf-Detectite Hammond appeared lor the police, Mr. Wills for Power, and Mr. R. R~ Bell >- at tried proceedings on behalf of the father of the child. Mr. Alias G. Menzies. Mabel Francis Irsds-on, the passenger In the ear, said that just as the car was about to pass a fruiterer's cart on the left of the road, a little girl seemed to step on to the road. She thought the child got over safely. A police constable who tested the car in Lucerne Road -aid the handbrake was useless. At 2d miles an hour It took 15 yards to pull the ear up with the foot brake. The footbrake was in fair order, but slow in acting, he said. Power pleaded not guilty on the negligent driving charge, and. reserving his defence, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was fized at £l'"'.