“FOOLISH EPISODE”
Labourer Charged With Obstructing Goods Train BARROW PLACED ON LINE VERDICT OP NOT GUILTY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., To-dav. After retirement of 17 minutes the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the Supreme Court in a case in -Whieh Allan Neil Rittler, a labourer, aged 21, was charged with having wilfully placed an obstruction, a luggage borrow, on the line at the Otaki Tail•W*y station. Evidence was given by a» 18-year-old boy that during a dance a party, including accused, paid periodic visits to a place where they consumed the contents of a gallon keg and six quart bottles of beer. Accused said that he could not remember handling the barrow into which the goods train had crashed.
Counsel for the deefnee described the affair as merely a foolish episode, occurring during drunkenness.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 25 October 1934, Page 6
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