ENGINE DRIVER CHARGED
ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER (By Telegrapn—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Tuesday As the outsome ot a railway smash on the Otago Central line between Hyde and Middlemarch on June 4, in which 21 persons lost their lives, a charge of manslaughter was today preferred against the engine-driver of the train, John Patrick Alphonsus Corccran, aged 51. The charge was that he drove a train negligently and at an excessive speed, and killed Francis Robert Kinney and certain other persons. An application by the police for a remand until September 16 was granted, Corcoran being released on bail of £2OO with two sureties for £IOO each.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22137, 8 September 1943, Page 2
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