SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1936, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

HAMILTON TRIALS

[per press association.]

HAMILTON, May 27

The trial began in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day of Leonard Reay Grogan, a young man who is charged with negligently driving a motor-truck at Whatawhata, on March 18, causing the deaths of William Aikman, Henry Leslie Williams, and 'William Oliver Lester Jarvis.

In opening the case, the Crown Prosecutor said the accused was conveying on his motor-truck to Frankton a number of workers who had been engaged on relief works near Whatawhata. It was alleged that he cut the corner on a bend, as the result of which he collided with another truck and three of the passengers in his truck received fatal injuries. There were no allegations that Grogan drove at an excessive speed or was in any way by liquor. Counsel quoted from accused’s statement in which he attributed the accident to the unreasonable state of the road, which prevented him from getting over to his correct side in time to avoid’ the impact. Counsel maintained that Grogan knew the road and should have realised the risk he was taking. The case was unfinished when the Court adjourned. Kenneth Peckham, of Huntly, pleaded guilty to assault at Taupiri on March 7, causing actual bodily' harm to Robert Million and the theft of £ll. He was remanded for sentence until Wednesday, bail being sene Wed because of prisoner’s health. Richard Perry, aged' 25, was charged with wilfully destroying a motortruck valued at £135 at Matahura on March 25. He was also charged that with intend to defraud at Huntly, he J obtained £135 from the Queensland Insurance Company by falsely representing that the motor-truck owned by him was not destroyed by fire by any wilful act by himself. i Arthur Edward Kingsford, aged 26, pleaded' guilty to negligent driving of a car at Te Awamutu, on February 15, { causing the death of James Peacock. He was remanded for sentence till. Wednesday.

“If only you’d buy shoes big enough to be comfortable you wouldn’t always bo complaining that your feet hurt,” said Mr. Jones. His wife looked annoyed. “And just, how comfortable do you think I would be if I walked down the street wearing a pair of shoes big enough to stop my feet from hurting?”