DEFECT IN LINE
ALLEGED BY ENGINE-DRIVER. IN MANSLAUGHTER CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, October 20. The trial of John Patrick Alphonsus Corcoran, aged 51, on a charge of manslaughter arising out of the railway accident between Hyde and Middlemarch on June 4 last, was continued in the Supreme Court today before Mr Justice Kennedy. Most of the evidence was on the lines of the lower Court hearing. A new point emerged in the crossexamination of William Alison Brown, an engine-driver, who said that about a month after the accident he experienced a “kick out” on the main line north of Purakanui when he was assistant driver on an express, and there was very nearly a smash. It was known that there was a defect in the line, but in spite of reduced speed it had “kicked out.’
The hearing will be continued tomorrow. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1943, Page 3
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