MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
TRAM OUT OF CONTROL
DRIVER BEFORE COURT
(Ter Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day
The trial commenced before Mr. Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court this morning of 'Alfred Chapman, aged 53 years, the driver of a tram car that left the rails on the Opoho line on April 15 and careered across the footpath, killing John Kenny. Chapman is charged with manslaughter. The Crown Prosecutor staled that the Crown had merely to prove failure to exercise a reasonable degree of care. The evidence would show that the brakes and mechanism, were in perfect order with nothing to account for their supposed failure.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 13
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104MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 13
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