THE PENROSE FATALITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17392, 12 February 1920, Page 6

THE PENROSE FATALITY.

DASE FURTHER ADJOURNED, * ■'iconsitf iffii l llOxuiSK GOES SURETY. :■'* The motor fatality at Penrose on Janu- j try 26, when Mr. A, J. Horton sustained c injuries from which !he died a few hours " later, wu the subject of brief proceedings £ it tha Policij Court yesterdsy. The J sccosed, Alfred Thomas Percy; Dare, who ' has been charged with murder, wai ° brought before Air. J. E. Wilson, 0.M., '* sod the case dm further adjourned, until j i^ «-#;.-#'-^ ( Mr. Inder f on behalf of ; the accused, j asked for bail on the grounds that Dare's . invalid parents were dependent, on his , earnings; tint hit jeleaie ■ was newniry \ for the preparation oil his defence, and that , he was now wnll known throughout the , country, and could not;escape. ,' , The magistrate 1 said tho charge was so j serious that bail eould be allowed under , exceptional circumstances only. Even ;in ] New I Zealand a man could hide himself , : effectively for a considerable time, and, | tmfoftunately for the •application fori bail, , the young man- had run away after ; the \ occurrence,,', • '.- ' • ; ,- * ." • ~.1 . Mr. Inder urged' the magistrate to hear , him v further on the application, and Mr. ( Wilson sgreed to hear his argument in i chambers. Afterwards the magistrate in- , in open Court that he would fix 1 bail at £2», and warned Dare that his j mother had Staked her possessions as ''i^dtyllofihtt''a'rtWH«j' 16. , Meanwhile he Would report: himself nightly >; at the Dominion Road Police Station. v-.\