TRAIN IMPERILLED
CAR ON RAILWAY LINE
OWNER'S "GROSS PERJURY."-
(PY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION ) INVERCARGILL, This Day. Alan George Watt was fined £50 for leaving a motor-car across a railway line, to the danger of passengers on the express, and the driver's license was cancelled.
The defendant alleged that the car .was removed from his property by another and left on. the railway. The Magistrate described this as "a cock-and-bull story," and said the defendant had committed gross perjury. Defendant's counsel said the car, which was struck by the express, had been sold at a loss of £340, and Watt would not drive again, and had also taken out a prohibition order.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 6
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110TRAIN IMPERILLED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 6
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