A Train Wrecker

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 83, 7 January 1890, Page 2

A Train Wrecker

♦ (PEB TTlf ITED PKEBB ASSOCIATION) iNVERCABGiLi, January ft. On Saturday morning ; when the Chn ton train, due at Inyercargill at 10.55 a.m., reached the Mill-road Station, just as the engine was about to pull up before going oa to the siding, it passed over a large fang bolt; meanwhile the guard had gone up to moye the points to let the tram into the siding, when he found two iron bolts known as " dogs," and several stones of a considerable size placed on the rails at both ends of the siding. Detective Madden went out by the 4.15 p.m. train, and wheii going v to exatpme the place where th# obstructions ;*were found in the mormlig discovered 'three stones planted in a^check rail, two iron dogs, and a piece 6f^»nit6h bolt and a large stone on the mam line-. After removing these, and when the trains had gone past, the detective kept watch until 9 p.m., biit nothing occurred. He again went by the 6.40 a.m. twin to-day, and had not waited long before he noticed a boy named Brown, hvirifr nearby, plaoing stones on the line.. The bojr was promptly secured. An investigatum as to whether he had an aticolmplioo will be made.