MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
KILBIRNIE TRAM SMASH DRIVER FOUND GUILTY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Guilty with a strong recommendation to mercy was the verdict returned yesterday by the jury that had heard the trial in the Supreme Court, Wellington, of Donald Norman McLean, motorman of the tram which overturned at Kilbirnie on the night of June 12, killing one man and injuring 28 other passengers. The rider was as follows: “The jury is of the opinion that the accused committed an error of judgment in not recognising that he was so close to the points, such error of judgment being largely caused by the extremely poor lighting conditions existing at the time and the general strain under which the members of the tramway service are labouring. The jury submits the strongest possible recommendation to mercy.” Accused was remanded till the close of the criminal sittings for sentence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 3
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147MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1943, Page 3
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