THE AISGILL DISASTER.
.APPORTIONING- THE BLAME. A RECONSIDERED VERDICT. r DEATHS DUE TO ACCIDENT. ° F o (Received 11.15 a.m.) I } I LONDON, September 19. I E At the Aisgill inquest, Nicholson, r driver of the second express, agreed that the regulations afforded ample protection, ° if properly operated. Whitley, guard of the first train, ad- T mitted that according to the regulations x he ought to have placed detonators in the . rear immediately the train stopped. If J he had done so it might have prevented the accident. i The foreman of the jury declared that indisputably it would have saved the accident. A verdict was returned that Driver Caudle, Fireman Fellows, and the locomotive inspector at Carlisle were guilty of culpable negligence. (Received 12.15 p.m.) ' LONDON", September 19. After arguments with the Coroner the Aisgiil jury was instructed to reconsider : its verdict, and retired four times. It j J was tentatively suggested that there were ] J extenuating circumstances in Caudle's \ 1 case, while Fellows had been negligent in ' 1 a lesser degree. Finally a verdict was ' returned that the deaths were accidental. i
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 225, 20 September 1913, Page 5
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