A FATHER’S ORDEAL.
Pathetic evidence was given at an inquest held at Cambridge on a little boy named Challis, aged nearly lour, the child of a signalman, llotli the parents saw the little fellow killed, and the father stated that lie had just cleared the lino for tho train, which was in "sight, when, looking from the door of his signal box, lie Jaw bis two children—the deceased and a brother aged live years—crossing tho metals. It was too late, to do more than shout, and ho called out to them to stop. They continued:, however, to cross the line, and the deceased called back: “All right, daddy.” IVhen about fifty yards from them the driver saw the little children in front of his train. Ho shut off steam, applied his brakes, and whistled, but the engine caught the deceased just as the mother came shrieking from the adjacent cottage. The deceased’s skull, wrist, and left leg were fractured, lp't his brother miraculously escaped injury. The cliilfl was picked up alive, and carried on the train to Cambridge, but died before bis admission to the hospital. A verdict of “Accidental death” was returned.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 14 May 1907, Page 4
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193A FATHER’S ORDEAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 14 May 1907, Page 4
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