Slate Hearing In Two Deaths On RR Trestle

Courier-Post clipping, December 12, 1957: Slate Hearing In Two Deaths On RR Trestle (first crop).
Camden Courier-Post, December 12, 1957
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Slate Hearing In Two Deaths On RR Trestle (Reprinted from Wednesday's Late Edition) The engineer of a PRSL train that hit and killed two children on a trestle at Louis and Mechanic sts. last Thursday was released Wednesday in his own rec-
Continuation of the December 12, 1957 story naming engineer John C. Gillan and the two children killed.
Camden Courier-Post, December 12, 1957
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ognizance by Municipal Judge Marino pending further hearing next Wednesday. John C. Gillan, 66, of 241 Rhoads ave., Haddonfield, the engineer, appeared in court, but Marino announced that through a clerical error the family of the children and the Camden police accident division had not been notified of the hearing. The children were John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14. and his sister, Karen, 9, of 1121 Orchard st.

(Reprinted from Wednesday's Late Edition)

The engineer of a PRSL train that hit and killed two children on a trestle at Louis and Mechanic sts. last Thursday was released Wednesday in his own recognizance by Municipal Judge Marino pending further hearing next Wednesday.

John C. Gillan [sic], 66, of 241 Rhoads ave., Haddonfield, the engineer, appeared in court, but Marino announced that through a clerical error the family of the children and the Camden police accident division had not been notified of the hearing.

The children were John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14. and his sister, Karen, 9, of 1121 Orchard st.

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