MORTON MAINS FATALITY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Invercargill, last night. The inquest in regard to the Morton Mains railway accident was resumed tonight, when the Department sought to explain why the headlight wont out at about the same point last Friday night when the jury were on the spot, the explanation being that the lamp did not fit the frame on the latter occasion, and that being propped with pieces of wood the wind got in when travelling 35 miles an hour and blew out the light. Mr Macdonald, Crown Solicitor, who was watching the case for the Department, addressed the jury at length, although he admitted that he had technically no legal right to do so. In conclusion ho said that if he believed Fraser by an error of judgment had not taken the proper precautions to satisfy himself that the engine wa- coming the jury must find that the accident was caused from want of proper care on Fraser’s part, The jury, at 11.15 pan., returned a verdict practically of accidental death, and that the headlight was burning at the time of the accident, but was obscured to an extent by smoke on the glass ; that if the gangers believed the light they saw was the headlight then they did not take proper care.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 295, 20 December 1901, Page 2
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