ISLAND BAY TRAGEDY
CHARGE OF NEGLIGENT DRIVING HOOKER FOUND NOT GUILTY (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court last evening in the case ill which Frederick Patrick Hooker, shop assistant, aged 211 years, stood his trial before Mr Justice Reed and a jury on a charge of negligently driving a motor car thereby causing the death* of James Henry Wood, his-wife Marjorie Wood, Olga Bnrdebes and Ernest Joseph Dickson; 'flic prosecution was a sequel to the motor accident at Island Bay at midnight on Ist April last, when the ear failed to negotiate a corner oh Milne Tcrace, and crashed 40 feet to the road below killing four persons. Accused was discharged.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1933, Page 6
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125ISLAND BAY TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1933, Page 6
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