MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
MOTORING FATALITY IN WELLINGTON VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, tb'.s day. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court last evening in a case in which Frederick Patrick Hooker, a shop assistant, aged 23 years, stood his trial before Mr Justice Reid and a jury on the charge of negligently driving a motor car, thereby causing the deaths of James Henry Wood, his wife, Marjorie Wood, Olga Bardebes and Ernest Joseph Dickson. The prosecution was the sequel to a motor accident at Island Bay at midnight on April Ist last when the car failed to negotiate a corner on Milne Terrace and crashed forty feet to the road below, killing the four persons mentioned. Accused was discharged.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8495, 29 July 1933, Page 3
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