ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER
CHRISTCHURCH MOTORIST CHARGED. [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 20. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Pierce Power appeared on remand to answer a charge of causing the death of Frederick Charles Binns, thereby committing manslaughter. The case arose out of the recent motor car fatality. H. M'lntosh (City Council traffic insaid that one of his duties was to examine the drivers of motor vehicles before issuing certificates of fitness. The defendant’s car, loaded as it was and under then existing road conditions, should he capable of being pulled up in its own length if going at 10 miles an hour, if the brakes were in proper order. Going at five miles per hour it should pull up in half its lengtfi, and at 20 miles an hour it should pul] up in three to four lengths under the road conditions as then existing. Power was committed for trial.
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Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 1
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150ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 1
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