Endeavouring to establish connection' between green paint on overcoat buttons and paint on portion of a motor truck, the Crown produced evi dence at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday from the Gov eminent Pathologist (Dr. Lynch) and the assistant analyst, at the resumed hearing of a charge of negligent driving causing death, brought against Samuel Edward Ifawko. Apart from these the chief witness was’ Sergeant S. G. Clist, who visited the scene of the fatality at Oakura on the evening of June II shortly after Leonard Wylie Blanchard was killed, and Thomas Jury, the pillion rider, was seriously injured when their motor-! cycle was struck by a passing vehicle. Sergeant Clist visited Hawke’s home -and took him and his companion, If. B. Gray, and a motor truck, which had a dent in the mudguard, to the police station. Fifteen opt of thirty Crown witnesses had Iren heard when the Court adjourned to allow Hawke 'to. attend his sister’s funeral.' —pi a. ; '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12919, 22 July 1936, Page 7
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