Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — ENGINEER HELD NOT GUILTY [ARTICLE]

ENGINEER HELD NOT GUILTY

Acquitted in North Carolina Because There Was Danger to Human Life. A locomotive engineer is held not guilty of manslaughter in the North Carolina case of State vs. Tankersley, 00 S. E. 781, annotated in L. R. A. 1917 in colliding with a standing train and killing passengers thereon because he falls to obey a cautionary signal, if there was nothing about the signal to indicate that there was danger of collision or that life was in danger.