RECENT FATALITY IN AUCKLAND.
TRAM CONDUCTOR SENTENCED
By Telagraph-Press Association
AUCKLAND, September 8. At the Supreme Court, Herbert Birkett, tram conactor, charged with manslaughter in connection with the Onehunga fatality, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labour. In sentencing Birkett, Mr Justice , Edwards said that no other verdict than the jury had brought in was possible. Accused had caused the death of an old woman by gross negligence, and he must be imprisoned, not to make an example of him, but in order not to create an example which would have had conseqences. The judge added that he had ascertained that prisoner would not be associated with ordinary criminals in the naol.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9590, 9 September 1909, Page 5
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114RECENT FATALITY IN AUCKLAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9590, 9 September 1909, Page 5
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