RAILWAYMAN KILLED
RUN OVER BY ENGINE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Crushed between the trailing bogie box of a shunting" engine and the ground at the Auckland Railway Station at 10.45 o'clock this morning, a railway employee, Henry John Gorman, aged 50, a resident of Parnell, was killed.
Gorman was oiling and attending points which stand in the middle of a set of tracks leading to the outward goods shed. As he attempted to step aside to allow an engine to pass, he slipped and before he could recover himself, the engine, although travelling slowly, ran over him.
"I saw Gorman looking after the points," said A. P. Home, a shunter, who was riding on the locomotive. "I called out and he straightened up. As he stepped off the tracij he slipped. I called out to the driver to stop, but before the engine could be pulled up Gorman had been hit. The engine was travelling at only about three or four miles an hour."
. An inquest for the purpose of identification will be held this afternoon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 10
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