THE SANSON TRAGEDY

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160692, 3 July 1920, Page 5

THE SANSON TRAGEDY

NEWTH COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per United Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., July 2. At tho Magistrate’s Court, Warren Newth, taxi driver, was committed for trial on manslaughter charges arising out of tho recent collision at Sanson, resulting in the loss of three lives. Walter Andrews, motor mechanic, said that judging by the damage done to the cars, and assuming the deceased Eglinton to have been travelling at the rate of 25 miles per hour, Newth must have been travelling at 45 miles per hour

J. E. Perry, president of the Motor Garage Proprietors' Association of New Zealand, said Eglinton’s oar was the most seriously damaged car, as the result of a collision, he had ever seen. He estimated Newth’s speed must have been 45 to 50 miles per hour.