JURY DISAGREES
NEW TRIAL ORDERED P.A. AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. After a hearing lasting three days, the jury , disagreed in the trial of the driver and fireman of the Waitakere-bound train which was involved in a collision with a relief express from Whangarei near Parnell on September 8. The engine driver is William James Wilde, aged 41, and the fireman Richard Henry Steel, aged 20. The accused were jointly charged with causing bodily harm to a passenger in the train from Whangarei in such circumstances that, if his death had occurred, they would have been guilty of manslaughter. Each of them was also separately charged with culpable neglect of duty by wilfully omitting to observe a red danger signal and so endangering the safety of passengers. The jury was absent for four hours. A new trial was ordered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26614, 10 November 1947, Page 4
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