“GOT THE WIND UP”
FAILURE TO REPORT ACCIDENT MOTORIST COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (Per United Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Aug. 11. “I was 100 frightened to tell the police. I got the wind up and thought I would clear out. I did not know until the police told me that the man was dead.” In these words Charles Archibald Riseley, a labourer, aged 26, and married. with one child, explained why he failed to stop last Saturday night when the half-ton motor truck he was driving struck and killed Arthur Sydney Harper while the latter, with his young son, was cycling down Herbert street. Riseley appeared before Mr Abernethy, S.M., in court this morning, and pleaded guilty to charges of negligent driving causing death, and failing to stop after an accident involving injury to ascertain whether he had injured any person. After evidence had been taken he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on both charges. Bail was allowed on accused's own recognisance of £IOO and a surety of £IOO, the accused to report daily to the police.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23885, 12 August 1939, Page 14
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