NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE
RABBITER SENT TO GAOL (United Press Association) HAMILTON, December 3. Sentences of six months’ imprison-' ment with hard labour on each of two charges of negligently driving a motorcar on November 7 and thereby causing the death of Reginald Jack Taylor, and of failing to stop to give assistance, were imposed by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court today on Reginald Hogarth, aged 23 years, a rabbiter, of Putaruru, the sentences to be concurrent. His Honour also ordered the cancellation of the prisoner’s driving licence and prohibited him from holding another for five years. The prisoner pleaded guilty in the lower Court this week to knocking Taylor over and killing him on the Hamilton-Cambridge road on the evening of November 7. He stated that the reason why he did not stop was that- “he lost his head.” The prisoner gave himself up to the police when he read that the man had died.
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Southland Times, Issue 23374, 4 December 1937, Page 4
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