SERIES OF ACCIDENTS
PRISONER’S REMARKABLE LIFE (Per Prues Association. ) DUNEDIN, Oct. 16. The remarkable series of accidents sustained by Allan Leslie Steven over a period of years was the plea put forward by counsel in the Police Court to show that defendant’s powers of resistance had been weakened. Steven was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car. The magistrate held that accused was not so abnoi ma I as to merit very exceptional treatment and sentenced him to three weeks’ imprisonment. Counsel stated that prior to the war accused was thrown from a cycle, sustaining a head injury. At | the war he was injured in a railway ; accident and suffered gassing and | shell shock at Ypres. He was knocked , down by a motor in France, had ; trench fever, and after his discharge j was knocked down by a car in Inver- i cargill, being unconscious for days. j A doctor definitely held that ac- i cused had some cerebral pressure, [ weakening his powers of resistance, j
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 246, 17 October 1936, Page 11
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