NEARLY A SMASH.
“KICK-OUT” ON MAIN LINE. * (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Oct. 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 to-day before Mr Justice Kennedy. Most of the evidence was on the lines of that in the lower court.
A new point emerged in the crossexamination of William Allison 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 the express, and there was very nearly a smash. It was known that there was a defect in the line, but in spite of the reduced speed it had “kicked out.” The hearing will be continued tomorrow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 9, 21 October 1943, Page 3
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