Further Particulars.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3094, 28 May 1881, Page 3

Further Particulars.

According to the facts as yet disclosed no blame can be attached to any one. Both the crossing keepers were at their posts. David Thompson, the enginedriver, states that he whistled at tbe Anderson's Bay road, and again while approaching the Ocean-road. He does not recollect sounding the whistle at the spot where the deceased was found. He did not see any one on the line, and the first intimation he got of any obstruction was something touching the brake. He then slackened speed until he reached the Kensington platform. From inquirnade late in the evening it appears in all probability that it was not the Walton Park train, but that which arrived at Dunedin about six o'clock from Mosgiel, which ran over the deceased—indeed there are facts which point to this conclusion. On the cowcatcher of the Mosgiel train's engine a quantity of human hair was found. A pool of blood was also noticed on the Dunedin side—the place where the body was found—implying that it must have laid bleeding at this spot for a considerable time before it was dragged in the direction of the Kensington crossing. The probabilities are that the deceased was knocked down by the train

coming in from Moegiel, and then run over and dragged for some distance by tbe Walton Park train. Sparrow, the driver of the Mosgiel train, however, did not notice anything unusual on his journey. The deceased was fifty years of age, was a married man, and leaves a family of seven. His wife says that he left home to take a walk at about four o'clock. He had not been to work that day, having been up all the previous night attending to his children, who were down with the measles. Evidently at the time of the accident he was returning home by way of tbe railway line, as he lived at the workshops.