FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 5

FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.

DRIVER COMMITTED FOR MAN^ SLAU6HTER;

BT TELEGRAPH—PBESB ASSOOIATIoii. '.■■_. -: t ■"'. AUCELA]^; Nov ; U. ;• :M The hearing of the charge of manslaughter against George iHopkihs was ' concluded' in the Police Gburt to-day. Hopkins was the driver of ar motor car: which knocked d(t\pn and fatally; in-V----jured Thomas Gleinond^Thorpe on the ' Manigere road, on October J9. v After further evidence had been given by several persons who witnessed the accident, on the same lines as the evidence called at the inquest, Detective Scott went into, " the box and deposed that when accused • was arrested he said heibad given £160, which he had borrowed, to the deceased lad's parents. Witness under-v stood that this gift was made befcause the accused was sorry for the lad. not because he admitted any liability. 3tfr C Cutte^n, S.M., said%at it was^ne of those unfortunate casjes over which he had no jurisdiction. Accused, was, therefore, committed fa the Supreme Court for trial. Bail^as allowed iii his own surety of £100, and in one other v of a like amount;. ( \