MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
CROWN EVIDENCE PARTLY HEARD. (United Press Association.) New Plymouth, July 21. Endeavouring to establish a connection between green paint on overcoat buttons and the paint on a portion of a motor truck, the Crown produced evidence from the Government Pathologist, Dr P. P. Lynch, and the assistant analyst at the resumed hearing to-day of a charge of negligent driving, causing death, against Samuel Edward George Hawke. Apart from these, the chief witness was Sergeant S. G. Clist, who visited the scene of the fatality at Oakura on the evening of June 11, shortly after Leonard Wylie Blanchard was killed and Thomas Jury, a pillion rider, was seriously injured when their motor cycle was struck by a passing vehicle. The sergeant visited Hawke’s home and took him, his companion, R. B. Gray, and a motor truck which had a dent in the mudguard to the Police Station. Fifteen of the 30 Crown witnesses had been heard when the Court adjourned to allow Hawke to attend his sister’s funeral.
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Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 3
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169MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 3
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