DOUBLE CAR TRAGEDY
Man on Trial at Dunedin
By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, July 20. The criminal sittings of the Supreme Court opened to-day with the trial of John Francis Harris on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car and causing the deaths of James Joseph Rogan and Charles Nicol Stewart. An alternative charge was that of negligent driving causing death. This case is a sequel to the tragedy near the Oval on May 9 in which two men and two women were struck by a car, the men being fatally injured. Accused pleaded not guilty. Lengthy evidence was heard and the court adjourned until to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 252, 21 July 1936, Page 6
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109DOUBLE CAR TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 252, 21 July 1936, Page 6
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