PLACED SLEEPER ON RAILWAY
Youth Remanded For Sentence
(New Zealand Press Association! WELLINGTON. November 27. Colin James MacDonald, aged 17, a mechanic, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt yesterday afternoon to a charge of placing a sleeper across a railway line last weekend. Mr J. R. Drummond, S.M., declined to transfer the case to the Children’s Court. Sergeant G. Tait said that MacDonald had confessed to putting the sleeper on the line. He had said he did not want to cause any harm, but just wanted to see the rail-car stop. The Magistrate remanded MacDonald for a probation officer’s report.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28446, 28 November 1957, Page 9
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