CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST
ALLEGED NEGLIGENT DRIVING. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 21, Further evidence was taken to-day in the preliminary hearing of the charge against John Mathias Gamble of negligently driving a motor car so as to cause the death of Joseph Alfred Banks and Cicely Mable Griggs. Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., was on the bench. Ernest Harold Holliday, motor mechanic, with 25 years’ experience, said that when he examined the motor cycle he found it in good order, and there were no defects in the steering gear or the brakes of Gamble’s car. Gamble’s car was capable of a speed of 05 to 70 miles an hour. He could not express an opinion as to Gamble’s speed wben he left the skid mark of 124 feet on the roadway and then damaged Mason’s store. Gamble must have been going faster than 40 miles an hour, 6 Gamble reserved his defence, and was committed to the Supreme Court.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21163, 22 October 1930, Page 6
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