RECOMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER.
Per Press Association. Christchurch, May 22. At the .Magistrate's Court to-day, William Halliard Khodes Moorchouse was brought up on remand ou a charge of manslaughter. Air. Stringer, in opening the case for the prosecution, said that at the last criminal sitting of the Supreme Court, the Grand Jury, in face of the most explicit directions from the Judge, and for reasons best known to themselves, threw out the hill against accused. The facts of the case were simple. Accused rode a motor bicycle along a public portion of New Brighton beach at the terrific pace of somewhere about sixty miles an hour, and killed a child named Gourlay. He hoped accused would be able to satisfy n jury that the death of the child was not attributable to his criminal negligence, but it must be done in broad daylight, in open court, and not in the privacy of a grand jury room.
After hearing evidence, Mr. Day, S.M., said he thought accused showed negligence in riding at the speed alleged, and committed him for trial. Bail was allowed, accused in £lo*o and one suretv of ;CIOO.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 23 May 1907, Page 2
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189RECOMMITTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 23 May 1907, Page 2
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