GAOL FOR MOTORIST
NEGLIGENT DRIVING INJURY TO A CYCLIST [BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON. Friday For negligently driving a motor-car, a:xd thereby causing injury, Robert William Gunn was sentenced by Mr. Justice Heed in the Supreme Court to-day to three months' imprisonment, and was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. £2 18s, in default an additional month in gaol. His Honor said he had dealt with the case from tho point of view of endeavouring to protect the public from negligent driving. It was nbt so much a question of punishing tho prisoner as it was that some punishment should bo inflicted which would bo a possible deterrent to others. He did not think that prisoner would have been so inhuman as to have gone on had ho known a man was under his car. This was a case in which Ernest Alfred Harnor was knocked from a bicycle at Kilbirnie and dragged some distance under a car.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 19
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160GAOL FOR MOTORIST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 19
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