SIR M. CAMPBELL
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL ON CHARGE OF SETTING SPRING GUNS. ESTATE EMPLOYEE LOSES LEG. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, December 14. The racing motorist, Major Sir Malcolm Campbell, at East Grinstead, was sent for trial at the next quarter sessions on a charge of placing on his country estate in Sussex a spring gun calculated to inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser. The prosecution stated that several of these guns were set on the estate, with danger notices. The guns, which were Sir Malcolm’s own device, were fired by trip-wires, and discharged blank cartridges containing red ochre, designed to mark a trespasser’s clothing so that he could be identified. An estate employee caught his foot in a trip-wire and had to have his leg • amputated as a result of his injuries. Campbell pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. He was granted bail.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 3
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