SENSATIONAL SUICIDE
MAN, THROW’S HIMSELF UNDER
A TRAIN,
(Per Press Association A
Timaru, last night. A sensational suicide was perpetrated at the railway station this evening. As the express from Dunedin passed the platform, slowing up aDd going about ton miles an hour, a man deliberately stepped off the platform the north end of the station building and lay down just in front of tho train. Tho cowcatcher caught and cut him to pieces. The suicide was a middle aged single man, John Howard, newspaper runner, who came in May last from Sydney, where be had followed the same occupation. He had been drinking, and tbe loss of bis effects by fire in a boarding house on Sunday preyed on his mind. He had some relatives at Cumperdown, Sydney.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1034, 29 October 1903, Page 2
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129SENSATIONAL SUICIDE Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1034, 29 October 1903, Page 2
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