COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
FATAL ACCIDENT SEQUEL
After the hearing of evidence in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on charges of negligent driving causing death, failing to stop after an accident, failing to stop and ascertain if anyone had been injured, and failing to render all practicable assistance, Clifford Charles McNaughton, a customs clerk, aged 22, pleaded not guilty and was committed by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in self of £100 with one surety of £100. On a summary charge of failing to give information to the police, to which the accused pleaded guilty, he was remanded for sentence until after the Supreme Court trial. The charges arose from an accident in Ellice Street on August 3, when Robert Arthur McKenzie Meharry, employed as a cook at the Mount Cook Police Station, was knocked down and fatally injured by a car owned and allegedly driven by the accused. Frank Eric McKnight, a soldier on guard duty at Buckle Street, who assisted in chasing the car to Hankey Street, said the driver of the car when it passed him in, Buckle Street was McNaughton. Sub-Inspector G. H. Lambert conducted the prosecution and Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared for the accused.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 5
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207COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 5
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