SUSPECT CAUGHT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 7

SUSPECT CAUGHT

NEVADA OUTRAGE TRAIN WRECK INQUIRY MAN WITHOUT EARS SURVIVOR’S EXPERIENCE MELBOURNE TRAVELLER (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 15, 2.45 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. On suspicion- of sabotage in connection with the disaster to the express City of 'San Francisco, which was derailed and crashed in the Nevada mountains yesterday, the -police have arrested an earless man. He was taken off a goods train 'near Reno and was removed to police headquarters. He insisted that he had not been in eastern Nevada recently, although police officials said he was bitter against the .Southern Pacific Railway, alleging that he lost a foot and that his ears were mutilated in a railway accident some years before. He gave the name of Bob Laduceur, aged 28 years. Interviewed by a representative of the United Press of America, Mrs. Tomlin, of Melbourne, Australia, who is 'in the Elko, Nevada, Hospital with three (broken ribs, said: “Despite the horror, it was not bad considering how lucky some of us were.” She explained that she was in the outer berth of a bedroom car which was smashed. Her -husband, Mr. L. B. Tomlin, was in the adjoining berth, but he was only slightly hurt when hit by falling golf clubs -from the rack.

Mrs. Tomlin added that her 'husband was worried about his business and over having missed the Lurline from Honolulu. “But his business would not be any good if he were not alive,” she said.

It was unpleasant on the way to the hospital from the accident, she added., A man. who died later kept asking for water, and then said: “I guess I am going to live.” Five minutes later he was still.