GELIGNITE ON RAILWAYS.
THE RECENT AUCKLAND CASE. AUCKLAND, December 8. Joseph Davis, 75 years of age, who caused a sensation in the height of the strike excitement by reporting that he had found gelignite on the rails on the Alain Trunk railway just before the Wellington express was due, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court this morning when charged with that intent to do grievous bodily harm he laid two plugs of gelignite, with <v fuse and detonators attached, at the Green Lane railway station. Mr Justice Edwards said he recognised that the accused had hitherto borne a good character. No doubt the offence was due entirely to the weakening of his mind with advancing years, but that was the very circumstance that made him more dangerous to the community. His Honor sentenced Davis to reformative treatment not exceeding five years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 37
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141GELIGNITE ON RAILWAYS. Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 37
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