RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1398, 8 March 1905, Page 2

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

I (Per Press Association.) J *■ Dunedin, last night. I An request was bold to-day touching I the doath of John Henderson, J who was I killed by the bumper post he was adjusting falling and. crushing him. The foreman of tho Works Department said ;he had told the deceased to get the services of a I gang of men to assist him. He had told

I him on two ocoasions. He left it to I deceased to take the post out tbe best way I be liked, as he was an experienced man., I He could not remember any other specified 1 I instance when a yardman had assisted in ! I this kind of work. He considered it ; I dangerous work for ono mem, and couid : root understand why deceased did not get I assistance, unless he was merely measur

I icg. He thought if deceased oould not get 1 assistance he would have reported to him. I Robert Duncan, surfaceman, said he had been informed that deceased asked for [ assistance on Saturday, bnt was told it could not bo spared. He was also told deceased asked for assistance on Monday, but was refused. A ganger bad denied such was the case. Tbe jury returned a verdict that deceased met bis doath by being accidentally crushed, and added a I rider that it was the duty of tbe Railway I Department to have scon that deceased I bad some assistance, knowing that the j work was dangerous for one man. . A