PRINTER SENT FOR TRIAL
ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER. (United Press Association.) Christchurch, July 21. Jack Raistrick, aged 21, a printer, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial to-day on a charge of recklessly driving a motor cycle in Ferry road on May 17, thereby causing the death of Helen Berry Adapt, an elderly married woman. The verdict in the inquest was that Mrs Adam died in the Christchurch Hospital on May 17 from heart failure, associated with shock, due to severe injuries when she was knocked down by a motor cycle owned and driven by Raistrick. The accused and his pillion rider, Leslie Wehner, were both injured in the accident, and they stated in evidence that they had no memory of the accident. Evidence was given by several witnesses that the machine was being driven fast immediately before the impact occurred. One witness gave the speed as CO miles an hour, another as “going full bore,” and others said that it was going “terribly fast” and “like a sheet of lightning.” ' The injuries to Mrs Adam were a fracture of the left arm and compound fractures of both legs. She was unconscious when admitted to hospital and did not regain consciousness.
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Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 3
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200PRINTER SENT FOR TRIAL Southland Times, Issue 22948, 22 July 1936, Page 3
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