KILLED BY A TRAIN,
Pwss Association. WANGANUI, Dec. 25. An elderly man named Somervillo was killed at Halcomhp last evenin'' by the train from Palmerston to Wanganui. As the train rounded a. bend the driver saw a form at the side of the line and endeavored to pull up, but the cowcatcher caught clie man’s head, cutting off the upper port ion. A sugar-bag with two bottles of beer (one half empty) was found alongside the body. Deceased, who lived in a hut at Halcombe, had been in Feillding, and was walking home.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 26 December 1907, Page 2
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