CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.
MOTORIST ON-TRIAL. _ , M AUCKLAND, May 12. In the Supreme Court Stanley Alfred Rule was charged with manslaughter on January 16 by killing Esther Mary Watts, and also with negligently driving a vehicle. Joseph Landon, a farmer, deposed that at 8 p.m. he was driving in the Manukau rnL ' ani * popped fit a boarding-house. Ihe deceased, who was a passenger in his car, got out, and was walking across the street, when she was struck by a motor bus and received injuries from which she died. Frank Burnside, who witnessed the occurrence, said that ho took particular notice of the speed of the bus. ll© described it as terrific and dangerous.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 5
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