MOTOR BUS WAS BLOWN UP.
Proprietor Makes Charges Against Owner of Rival Service. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE AT MARTON. Per Press Association. MARTON, June 27. THE CASE is proceeding in the Marton Court to-day, in which Charles W. Hoffman is charged that on June 2 he blew up the bus of his opponent, L. S. Weld, on the Marton to Palmerston run, and also that he had in his possession a bomb with intent to commit a crime. Twenty-six witnesses are to be heard and only four were disposed of this morning. L. S. Weld told of Hoffman's efforts to put him off the road and of finding sugar in the benzine tank of the bus. Three other witnesses spoke of threats Hoffman had made to blow up or burn the bus. “ If he can’t be got by fair means he can be got by foul,” was one statement Hoffman was alleged to have made, while two of the witnesses told of the accused’s offer to them if they would burn the bus. (Proceeding.)
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 490, 27 June 1932, Page 7
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