OVERTAKEN BY EXPRESS.
GANGER'S TRAGIC DEATH. FOOT CAUGHT IN "JIGGER." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSION N., this day. The inquest into the death of William Sherlock, a railway ganger, of Tokomaru, who was struck by the Main Trunk express on the afternoon of September 7, was held this morning. The driver of the tain, Peter Salter, said he" noticed Sherlock on a velocipede 150 yards away. The train was travelling at a speed of 45 to 50 miles an hour. He blew the whistle and applied the emergency brake. A head wind was blowing and smoke was coming back into the cab obscuring his vision. Sherlock got off and apparently was trying to get the velocipede off the line when the train struck him.
Other evidence was given, to the effect that Sherlock said before his death that when he was trying to get the "jigger" off the Jine his foot stuck in the handle.
The Coroner stated that from the evidence i.t seemed that the onus was on the ganger not to be on the line when the train was approaching. A verdict in accordance with the medical evidence was given.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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191OVERTAKEN BY EXPRESS. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 11
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