MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES
ACCIDENT TO EXPRESS TRAIN FROM PICTON DRIVER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (P.A.) BLENHEIM, July 2. Joseph William Gurr, driver of the express train involved in a crash at Blind river on February 25. when six people were killed, has been committed for trial at the next session of the Supreme Court on two charges of manslaughter. His committal followed a four-day hearing before Justices of the Peace, during which 30 witnesses were called for the Crown. Gurr’s counsel, Mr H. R. C. Wild, of Wellington, criticised the delay in bringing the charges, and claimed that the publicity given to the evidence at the Board of Inquiry and the board’s findings placed the accused at a serious disadvantage and might prejudice his getting a fair trial. Mr Wild claimed that this disclosed the weakness in the manner in which inquiries and proceedings arising out of railway accidents were conducted in NeXv Zealand.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25537, 3 July 1948, Page 4
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