AVIATOR ACQUITTED
CHARGE NOT PROCEEDED WITH SYDNEY, March-'2-2.*-Robert Somerville, pilot,.of.thc_aexaplano which killed a farmer named Smith at Windsor on January 21, was charged with manslaughter at the Criminal Court to-day. The Crown'offered no evidence, and Mr. Justice Ferguson directed the jury to acquit Somerville, who was discharged. .
The Crown Prosecutor had announced that it was most difficult to prove Somerville guilty of culpable negligence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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64AVIATOR ACQUITTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16908, 23 March 1929, Page 5
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