AFTER THE BALL
MAN SI: AU GHTE R CHARGE BEING HEARD AT NELSON. [Per Press Association.] NELSON, Last Night. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice MacGregor, the hearing was commenced against Leonard Wiliam Field on alternate counts of manslaughter by causing the death of Lynda Effl.e Hunter and causing her death by negligently driving, The facts of the case are that early in the morning of September 27 last, a number of people, after attending a bachelors’ ball at Nelson, were proceeding in cars to Richmond to a supper party. Accused’s car, in which deceased was among the passengers, while attempting to pass another car, driven by Dr. Boag, going in the same direction, crashed Into an electric light pole at a street intersection at the foot of College hill, Nurse Hunter receiving injuries from which she subsequently died. No .fresh evidence from that given in the Lower Court was advanced and the Court rose after the case for th« Crown had finished.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2307, 27 November 1925, Page 7
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165AFTER THE BALL Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2307, 27 November 1925, Page 7
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