HIT AND RUN MOTORIST
WOMAN LEFT ON ROAD. ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 5. “He did not stop and left the victim of his driving on the road to such fate as might befall her, refusing the assistance which it is both morally and legally the duty of every person concerned in an accident to give at once,” said his Honour, Mr Justice Fair passing sentence in the Supreme Court' on Norman Arthur Purcell, aged 26, who had admitted having failed to stop after an accident on a country road at Kaitaia, when a woman pedestrian was injured. His Honour said that there was evidence that the car was checked after the accident. Two Maoris who were in the car said that they urged the prisoner to stop, and he said that they urged him to go oh, but in any case he did not stop. In the circumstances, imprisonment must be imposed to mark the gravity of the, offence and punish the prisoner. “I take into account that he is a young man and that his character in the past has been good,” said his Honour. “The least sentence I feel it my duty to impose is six months’ imprisonment.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 2
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