LORRY DRIVER ACQUITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1927, Page 3

LORRY DRIVER ACQUITTED.

CHARGE OF HEGLIGENCE, SEQUEL TO GIRLS DEATH. ■By Telegraph.— Q-x-n Correspond?:-.) HAMILTON*, Tinrsdar. I Ed-ward Miller Eouse, a vounsr married man. was acquitted bv a jurv after st Lad deliberated for three hours tcxiav -~a tne charge of negligently driving a. , motor lorry on 15 and th#rpbv I mu«:nc the death of Miss Alice ilv-a I ilorri*. ■ Accused, in evidence, said he u-a- a lorrr driver employed bv Chores "in. of Horotiu. in dehverioa meat frnni Horotiu to butchers' shops in Kam.lton. i On the morninz of March 13 he drove from Norton Road in:o Seddon L-oad. • The lorry vras travf-liiar ai i~Z mil*>j an hour, and a? he approached the he put ouz h:s hand and Mew :h<> to the dirertion :n whi<-h he -B- a - cc-ing. H<? saw M',~e Morris step or. to •':-■' road and thon hesitate. H» deemed it rai-r to pa** behind the rirl than to accelerate and pa** in iron: of her. He had ample rooa to pass, bnt the c irl ran bark • Wn:ie his attention tras momentariir in wa:chm? for other Trafte :n Road. The jrirl was struck bj the left hand side of the vehicle ~l n * n ,v"" er lo ,jse Cnnm Prosecmor, | Mr. Gihie«. accused said five roads , crocjAd at the point the accident occurred, and the driver of a vehicle naa to keep an eye on all these thorournfares when passing aver the interThat was why he did not *« d-«a»d until 6he had stepped on to the road. He t*ok the course usua'lr , taKen by traffic at the intersection, and he sl.ghtlj cut the corner.