OBSTRUCTION ON LINE
CHARGE AGAINST < MAORI VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WANGANUI, Thursday A verdict of not guilty was returned by a jury in the Supreme Court to-day in the case of Hori Rawhiti, a young Ratana Maori, who was charged with placing an obstruction on the railway line near Ratana. Evidence called by the Crown showed that a fish-plate weighing 91b. and a dog spike, both deemed capable of derailing a train, had been placed on the rails just prior, to the arrival of the New Plymouth-Wellington express at Ratana on November 1. Surfacemen who found this obstruction accosted accused, who, with his small son aged four, was seen near the locality. The jury was absent only a few minutes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22657, 19 February 1937, Page 11
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