DEATH OF A WIDOW
NEGLIGENCE OF MOTORIST TWO YEARS’ PROBATION (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON”, February 19. Found guilty of negligent driving of a car on the Great South road, near Xgaruawahia, and causing the death of Tlene Courtney, a widow, Ernest Alwyn Plummer, commercial traveller, aged 25, was admitted to probation for a term of two years by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day, a special condition being that during that time he pays from his earnings a fine of £SO by instalments of £1 weekly, or such smaller sums as the probation officer thinks necessary. “ Notwithstanding the gravity of the offence there are mitigating circumstances,” said his Honor. “ There has been no calousness or gross disregard for others, but only thoughtlessness. The knowledge that the accident resulted in the death of a fellow-creature is in itself a very severe punishment.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22810, 20 February 1936, Page 13
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