RAILWAY COLLISION
TRIAL OF TRAIN CREW ACQUITTED ON ALL COUNTS P.A. AUCKLAND, Nov. 19. The retrial of. the driver and the fireman of the engine that was involved in the railway collision near the overbridge at Parnell on September 8 resulted in the acquittal of both men on all counts. The trial, which began on Monday, was conducted by the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O'Leary, and the accused were William James Wilde, engine driver, aged 41, and Henry Richard Steel, fireman, aged 20. The accused were jointly charged with causing bodily harm to a passenger in such circumstances that if his death had resulted they would have been guilty of manslaughter. f Each of them was also separately charged with culpable neglect of duty by wilfully failing to observe a red danger signal. After an absence of two .hours, the jury brought in its verdj'ct of not guilty. It added recommendations that the regulations be enforced—(a) That drivers do not fire fin “special workings!” and ’ '(b) that -all firemen be fully competeht before:receiving a certificate to do footplate duty. His Honor discharged the accused, and said the recommendations would | be forwarded to the proper authority.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 7
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195RAILWAY COLLISION Otago Daily Times, Issue 26623, 20 November 1947, Page 7
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