RECENT RAILWAY FATALITY
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE V AGAINST DRIVER ' j DELAYS CRITICISED BY COUNCIL (P.A.) Blenheim, July 2. The driver of the express train which was involved in the crash at Blind River on February 25, when six people were killed, Joseph William Gurr, was committed f or trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court on two charges of manslaughter. His committal followed a four-day hearing before justices during which 30 witnerses were called by the Crown. Gurr's counsel, Mr H. R. C. Wild of Wellington, strongly criticised the delay in bringing the charges, claiming that the publicity given in evidence at the board of inquiry and the board's findings placed accused at a serious disadvantage and might prejudice his getting a fair trial. Mr Wild claimed that this disclosed a weakness, in the manner in which inquiries and proceedings arising out of railway accidents were conducted in New Zealand.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14713, 3 July 1948, Page 2
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