TAMPERING WITH A RAILWAY BRAKE

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 4

TAMPERING WITH A RAILWAY BRAKE

Dunedin, Feb. 2 The i seoond express .'from. Nortn was subjected to a delay of about 15 „ minutes at .Palmerston .yesterday, owing to a brake having bean tampered with. '-, jWhen "ibe driver en- .. deavoured 'to start the train it ! would not move, and t^e air in ttie , Westinghouse brake r had to ,be ( pumped out. A- youth, named Bain k was arrested| ana at the Uourt to- ■ day [lie was' 'ofiarged with haying committed [• an^ act whioh obstructed .the wcrking" of; the railiftays.,. by tightening a brake on one of the ; carnages. , The ca3e for the prosecution was that Bain had put tbe^band brake hard on, and the Westirighouse brake alsd was interfered with, but the accused was' not 1 charged with this. The defence WdS * that another person put the brake ' on before the train reaoued, Palmerston, and that the accused was turn- , iag it oif, when he waa detected. The accused was convicted and was fined 10s and coats.