TRESPASSERS MARKED
FAMOUS MOTORIST ACCUSED
(Rec. 10. 35) London;* Dec. 14. The racing motorist Major Sir Malcolm Campbell, at East Grinstead, was sent for trial at the next Quarter Sessions, on a charge of placing, on his country estate in Sussex, a spring gun calculated to inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser. ' The prosecution stated that several of these guns were set on the estate with clanger notices. The guns, which were Sir Malcolm’s own device were fixed by tripwires, and fire blank cartridges containing red ochre, designed to 'mark the trespasser’s clothes so he could be identified. An estate eniployee caught a 'foot in the tripwire, and had to have a leg amputated as the result of his injuries. Campbell pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence and was granted bail.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 December 1943, Page 2
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