MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
KILBIRNIE TRAM SMASH. EVIDENCE OF ACCUSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Giving evidence in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, in his defence against the charge of manslaughter, Donald Norman McLean, aged 33, motorman of the tram that capsized at Kilbirnie on the evening of June 12, killing a member of the Air Force and injuring 28 others, said he could not remember anything that happened between the time when the car was picking up speed after stopping at Tirangi Road and the time when he realised he was in a chemist’s shop. Several witnesses gave evidence as to accused’s sobriety before the accident.
The Court adjourned till this morning with the case unfinished, the jury to visit the scene of the accident in the meantime.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1943, Page 3
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