DEATH OF A BOY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1922, Page 5

DEATH OF A BOY.

FARMER MOTORIST' GUILTY, SENTENCE DEFERRED. \ By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. At the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Reed and a jury, Morgan Davies, a well-known Hawke’s Bay sheep farmer, was tried on a charge of manslaughter. The prosecution brought evidence to show that on November 2 accused while driving a motor ear at Karamu bridge, in the vicinity of Hastings, knocked down and killed a boy named Robert Frederick Allen. Accused did not stop at the time of the accident and it was some days before the notice were able to locate the driver of the car. In a statement to the police subsequent to the accident, Davies said be had had considerable liquor and he did not see the child till the car was almost on him. The shock of seeing the child down horrified him. He had only a hazy recollection of the affair and did not know what made him keep driving on. It was some days before he realised the full meaning of the accident. No evidence was called for the defence. Counsel, addressing the jury endeavored to draw from the evidence the conclusion that deceased was playing on the roadside with other boys and went on to the track of the car suddenly in a manner which made it impossible to avoid the accident. The jury, after deliberating for twe hours, visited the scene of the accident; and later returned a verdict of with a strong recommendation to mercy, Davies was remanded till to-moTTWW for sentence.