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COUNSEL SAYS MAN TO OLD
TO GO TO GOAL
Lawyer K. W. Hatliekl today asked Mr. Justice
Wolffl not to gaol a man who admitted having driven
negVgently and caused the death of a two-year-old girl,
because the man was too old to serve & gaol sentence.
Mr. Hatfield asked the Court to place farmer Hugh
Atkinson Hotham (62), of Yealering, on a bond and
ban him room driving.
Hotham thought that when
he was driving, along Cam
bridge-st., Leederville, he was
on a main thoroughfare and
did not have to give way to a
vehicle on his right, Mr. Hat
field said.
He had. held a. driver's
licence for 30 years and had
not previously been involved
in an accident
Hotham was stot-d down for
sentence.
He was committed for trial
by City Coroner R, P. : Rodri
guez after an mquest into the
death of. Patricia Ann Eccle
stone on April 9
The child was a passenger
in her father's small car when
it was struck by Hotham's
sedan at the Cambridge
Oxford-sts. intersection. :
The child was thrown but
on to the roadway. She died
from a fractured skull. :
[Before Mr Justice Wolff, Mr.: G.
. Ruse for the Crown. Mr. K. W. Hat
field for Hotham].
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