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SIR M. CAMPBELL’S OFFENCE London, Jan. 5. Sir Malcolm Campbell, the former racing motorist, was charged at the East Sussex quarter sessions at Lewes with placing spring guns on his country estate, and was fined £5. The Court found that. Sir Malcolm Campbell committed only a technical offence, and the words, “calculated to inflict grievous bodily harm,” were deleted from the charge. The prosecution stated at the earlier hearing that several spring guns were set on the estate, with danger notices. The guns, which were Sir Malcolm’s own device, were fired by trip-wires. They were loaded with blank cartridges containing red ochre, designed to mark a trespasser’s clothes so that he could be identified. An estate employee who caught his foot in a tripwire had to have a leg amputated as the result of injuries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 6, 8 January 1944, Page 2
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