MOTORIST KILLED
SCHOOLMASTER FOR TRIAL Press Association PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. In the Police Court to-day Maurice Clement Albrey O’Donnell, schoolmaster, of Matamau, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of negligently driving a car and causing death. The charge arose out of an accident on Ihaljira Hill, near Shannon, when a three-seater car driven by accused collided with another car driven by a youth, Ronald Heniy Dunbar King, and as a result went over a. steep bank on the side of the road. The car was stated to have come to rest 84ft down a slope. Accused’s brother, Thomas Francis Joseph O’Donnell, who owned the car, in which he had been a passenger, was found to have received severe injuries. He was removed to the Palmerston North Hospital, where he died.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 16
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