SUPREME COURT
YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH
MOTORIST FOUND GUILTY (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, May 4. The jury in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day found Bernard Zinsli, a labourer, of Te Kuiti, guilty of negligently driving a car at Te Kuiti on January 15 and causing the death of Edna Margaret Walsh, a young Hamilton woman. The jury added a recommendation to mercy. The accused was remanded for sentence on Tuesday. For the defence medical evidence was submitted to suggest that Zinsli had an attack of vertigo just prior to the collision. SERIOUS OFFENCES MAN REMANDED FOR SENTENCE (Per United Press Association) PALMERSTON N., May 4. William Charles Norman, aged 39, a labourer, of Otaki, was found guilty in the Supreme Court to-day, first, of rape; secondly, of assault so as to cause bodily harm; and, thirdly, of assault. He was remanded foi sentence. Subsequently Norman was found guilty by another jury of attempting to escape from custody by jumping from a train while being taken under escort from Otaki to Wellington. He was also remanded for sentence on this charge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23492, 5 May 1938, Page 12
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181SUPREME COURT Otago Daily Times, Issue 23492, 5 May 1938, Page 12
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