TRAIN BRAKE TAMPERED WITH.
A YOUTH FINED. (BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) t Dunedln, February 2. The second express from the north was subjected to a delay of about 15 minutes at Palmerston yesterday owing to a brake having been tampered with. When tho driver endeavoured to start tho train it would not 'move, and the air in tho Westinghouse bjakos had to be pumped out. A youth named Bain was arrested, and at the Court to-day -was charged with having committed an act 1 which obstructed the working of the railways by tightening the brake on one of the carriages. The oase for the prosecution was that Bain had put the hand brake hard on. The Westinghouse brake was also interfered with, but accused was not charged with this. The defence was that another person put the brake on before the train reached Palmerston, and that accused was turning it off when doteoted Accused was oonviotod and fined 10s. and costs.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 7
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160TRAIN BRAKE TAMPERED WITH. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 7
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