TO BE SENTENCED.
FATAL NEGLIGENCE. YOUNG MAN CONVICTED. PALMERSTON N., July 28. William Richard Paul, aged 21, a factory hand, was found guilty of negligently driving a motor-cycle, thereby causing the death of Irene Merle Campbell, aged 16, near Awalniri, early in the morning of April 17.
The girl, her two sisters, and a young man were walking home from a dance when Paul, with two pillion passengers, ran into them from the rear, killing Merle Campbell instantaneously. Paul and one passenger were unconscious in hospital for many days.
Paul was remanded for sentence
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 245, 29 July 1936, Page 3
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