ACCIDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 20

ACCIDENTS.

WATERSIDER killed.

boarding moving train.

Endeavouring to board the 4.23 train as it moved out from the • Lyttelton railway station yesterday afternoon, John Crocker, a waterside-worker, employed by the Harbour Board, fell, and after being dragged for -some distance, was crushed between the railway car-: riage and the platform, death being instantaneous!

An inquest was conducted last evening by Mr H.i A. Young, Coroner. William Thomas Crocker gave evidence of identification. He said his father was' 68 yearsof age/ and in good health. He resided at 80 Barbadoes Btreet, Sydenham. He last saw his 'father at 7 sum. on February 10th. jvan Neil Barkle, station clerk at liyttelton,. said he.waaon duty on the liyttelton "railway, station yesterday afternoon. Ho dispatched thp 4.23 train, signalling the guaird "all clear. After ijhe train commenced to m(lye he saw Crocker make & grab for the hand-rail of'i carriage. He misseduthe first time, but made a-, second 1 grab and-caught the rail. He was pulled along by the, tram "and fell between the' two-carriages. The train was immediately stopped after having travelled, only. about one car length. Witnessed assisted to pull the man. on to the station platform. He was dead, the head being badly .crushed. Witness did not see Crocker bcfoTe . he attempted to boatd the train. Constable W. X Irwin.said ho had known Crocker for the past three years. He was called to the railway station, "ahtf'fotfnd the in the porter&i room, i The injuries to-the head'had, apparently ! isert; ca.used-.by l ,l>MHg orjisHed- between the battery-box of the carriage and ' the platfbttfc Death must have been v' '''£■• Iv .. A verdiet»*wa*!> returned ..»thas death was "due to injuries .accidentally je'was > attempting to bp&d a was attachable to the railway 0%i415.. # ~ •' ~ ' "i ^7yr T - 'V. ;'-«MAN.' ! isEita#Slii IN tp VASS-'*- 'V 'l4'r'sfJ ' s V ' \ ,t-' (ruir -Y' }"- r --, 'tA SUM! t f fU ' !f . AUCKLAND, IWwnary SJO* inline*"ftWfPrecdived by a middle-aged -man, J. Henderson, who, & ia'rfepotted/ isja resident of Howick,' knocked, down by a tram^ thiV ' He pinned n6atfc> and the: tram had/, to be jacked w' to 'extricate - him. Eye-witnesses ponied' the impression'that he was deaf, i Hi& ( vAondition,is critical. > Wil-y ' '