"NOT GUILTY."
MOTOR CYCLIST DISCHARGED. SEQUEL TO MOTOK FATALITY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Trevor Walter Moss was charged in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Adams, with having negligently driven a motor cycle on Woodham Road, and thereby caused the death of Margaret O'Connor. A firm of sewerage contractors were making a sewer connection in Woodham Road. The work was not finished, and there was a quantity of spoil lying on each side of a trench. Accused came along the road, ran into the spoil, and jumped 20ft across the trench. The girl was thrown off the carrier, and some time after she died in hospital. Accused had no proper light, but had a torch strapped on his handle-bars. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 198, 22 August 1928, Page 8
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