Fatal Accident.
AN OLD CIVIL SERVANT KILLED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Now Plymouth, last night,
A well-known old settler named James B. Lawson, at one time clerk to the Superintendent of the Province, and then for many years clerk of the County Council, was knocked over by the eight o’clock train from New Plymouth this morning, near his residence. Ho was driving his cows to a paddock, and it is supposed that in endeavoring to get tho cows out of the way of the train at a level crossing he was caught himself. He was alive when picked up, but died in a quarter of an hour.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 201, 31 August 1901, Page 2
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