ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN
ACCUSED MEANT IT FOB A' "JOKE." (By Teieeraph.—Press Association.) Palmerston N., July 21. . In the Police Court, the young man John Mason, who was recently arrested on a' charge of wilfully placing an '-obstruction on the railway near Awapuni, pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a written statement accused said he had been to to™, 'had some drinks,, went to the pictures, and returned home with liquor in his. possession. He placed two pieces of timber across the rails 'en route, and did it for a joke, "to knock somebody over."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 8
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102ATTEMPT TO WRECK A TRAIN Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2208, 22 July 1914, Page 8
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