RODE ON ROOF OF TRAIN
YOUTHS MISTAKEN FOR ESCAPED PRISONERS
Three youths who rode on the roof of a train, and whose names were ordered not to be published, were discharged without penalty by Mr Rex C. Abernethy. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, when they pleaded guilty to charges of behaving in a disorderly manner on October 11. Sub-Inspector C. H. Reardon, in outlining what he described as a most unusual charge, said that when driving on a country road a motorist had seen three men riding on the roof of a railway' train. When he reported the incident, the youths told their story to the police. Each of the youths had paid his fare, and none was known to the Court. The motorist had thought
the youths might be three escaped prisoners. The Magistrate: They are not prisoners yet, Sub-Inspector. One of the youths informed the Magistrate that they did not get on to the roof at the start, but after the train had started. In discharging the defendants the Magistrate advised them to confine their future climbing to ice, snow, or rocks, and to keep off the top of railway carriages. It was a case of pure stupidity.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 12
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