MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
t —4b DRIVER FOUND GUILTY. RECOMMENDED TO MERCY. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, October 28. After a hearing which occupied eight days, John Patrick Alphonsus Corcoran, aged 51, was found guilty in the Supreme Court today, before Mr Justice Kennedy on a charge that, by driving a railway train negligently and at excessive sneed, he did kill Francis Robert Kinney, thereby committing manslaughter. The chrage arose out of th& railway accident between Hyde and Middlemarch last June, in which 21 persons were killed. The jury, which deliberated for nearly three hours, added a rider making the strongest possible recommendation to mercy in view of accused’s undoubted suffering. It also expressed the opinion that in the interests of public safety all passenger engines should be equipped with speed recorders at the earliest opportunity. Accused was remanded in custody till Monday morning for sentence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1943, Page 3
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143MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1943, Page 3
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