MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON.
NEGLIGENCE CAUSES DEATH, COLLISION WITH GIRL CYCLIST. [BV TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] CIIUISTCIIUItCII, Monday. A farmer, David Bell, was to-day sentenced to four months' 'fiiprisonmcnt for the negligent, driving of a motor-car, thereby causing (lie. death of Vera Goodeve at Geraldine. He was also prohibited from driving for five years." This was the second trial. Mr. Justice Adams said he was convinced that it was the paramount duty of Ihe Court to protect the public from such a dreadful tiling as had happened in the present case. There seemed no doubt that the prisoner had been indulging in liquor to an extent that rendered him more or less incapable of exercising prompt judgment. The sentence would date from the beginning of the Tiinaru session of the Court, when the jury clis agreed. Vera Goodeve, aged 17, was knocked off her bicycle by Bell's motor-car. She died a few days later in tlio Geraldinc Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20870, 12 May 1931, Page 12
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157MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20870, 12 May 1931, Page 12
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