SEQUEL TO AIR ACCIDENT
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE FAILS Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY, March 22. Robert Somerville, pilot of the aeroplane which killed a farmer named Smith at Windsor on January 21, was charged with manslaughter at the Criminal Court to-day. The Crown offered no evidence, and Mr Justice Ferguson directed the Jury to acquit Somerville, who was discharged. The Crown Prosecutor had announced that it was most difficult to prove Somerville guilty of culpable negligence. [While making a forced landing in farm lands at Windsor, near Richmond, a Moth aeroplane owned by the Government, struck down and killed Allred Smith, a. well-known orchardist, while he was hoeing weeds. Smith was almost decapitated, and he suffered terrible- body and leg injuries. The' pilot, Robert Somerville, and the mechanic, Les Milgate, were rescued from the burning aeroplane by Smith’s son, who witnessed his father’s death, Somerville, who happened to h© a friend of the family, was so overcome by the tragic, occurrence that he was sent to hospital.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 8
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165SEQUEL TO AIR ACCIDENT Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 8
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