BOYS ARRESTED
ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN
SLEEPERS PLACED ON LINE
United Pros* Association—By Eloctrio Telegraph—Copyright
MELBOURNE, 9th January.
Tlie police arrested Clifford Issle, aged seventeen, and Ronald Trehearn, aged 17, who were charged with having placed an obstruction on the railway line at Bacchus Marsh. It is alleged that the youths told the police that they placed sleepers on the line.
A cable from Melbourne on Monday stated that train, wreckers made an attempt to wreck the Adelaide express between Bacchus Marsh and Ingliston. The driver, noticing an obstruction on the line, jammed on the emergency brakes and brought the train to a .standstill a couple of feet from two sleepers which were placed across the rails. Owing to the derailment of another train the express was fifty minutes behind schedule, and had it not been for this, a heavily loaded excursion train from Ballarat would have gone over the line first on the down grade.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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