MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1920, Page 5

MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.

ECHO OF MOTOR SMASH. By Telearabh —-Press Association. Palmerston North, July 2. In the Police Court, Warren Newth, a taxi driver, was charged with having on May 20, at Sanson, committed manslaughter by causing the deaths of Arthur Ernest Eglinton and Alfred Edward Penny, of Sanson, and Frank Kidman, of Wellington. A large plan of the scene of the collision and the roads leading to it on each side for some distance was placed before the Bench and evidence as to the preparation of the plan was given by H. J. Wydle, surveyor. Walter Andrews, a motor mechanic, said that judging by the damage dotie to the cars, and assuming that the deceased Eglington was travelling at 25 miles an hour, Newth must have been travelling at 45 miles an hour. J. R. Perry, president of the Motor Garage Proprietors of New Zealand, said Eglinton's was the most seriously damaged car as the result of a collision he had ever seen. He estimated Newth's speed must have been 45 to 50 miles and hour. Newth was committed for trial.