A RECKLESS DRIVER
Hastings Dentist Found Guilty by Jury FATAL COLLISION SEQUEL By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, May 19. A verdict of guilty on all counts was returned in the Supreme Court this afternoon by the jury empanelled Io try Jlons Wylie, a dentist, of I lastlugs, on charges of reckless driving causing death and reckless driving causing bodily injury, at Awatoto on Easter Monday. Wylie was remanded for sentence until Saturday. The case for the defence, which occupied the greater part of the day, was that accused was not travelling at an excessive speed; that Hie car was on its correct side of the road, and neither he nor his passenger saw anything approaching the car until it was right on them. The prosecution alleged that Wylie's car met and struck a lighter ear and pushed if back 60 feel through a fence, killing Arthur Gordon Perry, of Wellington, and injuring three other occupants.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 13
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154A RECKLESS DRIVER Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 13
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