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TRIAL OF OFFICERS MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED _, SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The trial of Ernest Turner and David Davies, driver and guard respectively of the goods train which caused the Manilla railway disaster, on charges of manslaughter, has commenced. The accused were charged in respect of the death of only one passenger, and" both pleaded not guilty. J In his opening addfesa the Crown Prosecutor referred td the estimable character and the unblemished records of both accused, and/said all the jury was asked to decide/was whether the accused were guilty of negligence in the performance of their/duties, and, if so, whether it amounted" to mmtnal negligence, i J
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 5
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