A SHOCKING TRAGEDY.
DUNEDIN BAKER THROWS HIM-
SELF IN FRONT OF TRAIN HIS AVIFE A HELPLESS SPECTATOR,
Press Association. DUNEDIN, August 20. Ambrose Phillips, till quite recently a bakor at Caversliam, threw himself beneath tlie wheels of a train at. Caver.sh.nm to-night, He was cut in two and disembowelled before tlie £ f ’i is wife, who was with him oil tlie platform. Air. and Airs. Phillips h id returned by the train from Alosgiel. and the occurrence was as sudden as it was unexpected. It was witnessed by two railway officials, tragedy 10 ‘ U>t tllne to P reve nt the
Deceased was a linker for 30 years in Caversliam, where lie was much resammi( F° P ossessed a particularly sanguine temperament till quite recf.tth when lie sold his business, afte. which lie became melancholy, and comphuned of having sold it 'at a act " as . apparently unpre-nu-i itatcct, and it is thought that deeeasedwvas suddenly seized with a fit of ®?, t ness - His wife is in a state Sid in? 8 ?- i Dccc ' nsed " as 61 years lld , ] . ,ad ?, grown-up family of -oi.s and daughters.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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184A SHOCKING TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2149, 3 August 1907, Page 2
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