MANSLAUGHTER
WOMAN MOTORIST CONVICTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26. A jury of five women and seven men brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter against Mrs Pantages, the wife of a vaudeville theatre owner, who recently sold his theatres for three millions sterling. The law provides for a sentence of from one to ten years. When the verdict was announced, Mrs Pantages collapsed. The charge was one of the second dqgree of murder, for killing a Japanese while driving a motor car while she was intoxicated. The victim was the father of six children.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1929, Page 6
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