NEGLIGENCE NOT PROVED
BUS DRIVER ACQUITTED FATAL MASTERTON COLLISION [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WELLINGTON, Thursday After a retirement of {our hours, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the Supremo Court in tlie case against James Thomas Rutherford, who was charged with negligent driving, thereby causing death. Tho charge arose out of a level crossing accident at Masterton on the evening of April 9, when a bus driven by Rutherford, and carrying young people to n dance, was struck-by a train, and one of the passengers, Frank Muirhcad Gillespie, was killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 12
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93NEGLIGENCE NOT PROVED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 12
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