POINTSMAN KILLED
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Fatality at Auckland Station
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' AUCKLAND, Last Night. Crushed. between the trailing bogy box of a shunting engine and the ground at the Auckland railway sta-tion at 10.45 this morning, a railway einpjoyee, ficnry John Gorman, aged 50, a residont of Parnell, was killed. . Mr. Gorman was oiling and attcnding to the points which stand in tho middle oi' the set of traeks leading to tho out.ward goods shed. As he attemptcd to step asido to allow an engine to pass, he slipped and before he could rocover himself the engine, although travelling slowly, ran over kim. "I saw Mr. Gorman looking after Ihe poinis," said Mr. A. P. H. Horne, shuntcr, who was riding 011 the locomotivc. "I callcd out and ho straigktencd up. As ho stcpped off the traek he slipped. .1 called out to tho.drivor to stop, but bcl'oro the eugine could oe pulled up Mr,' Gorman had been liit. The engine was travelling at anly about three or i'our miles an hour."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 121, 8 June 1937, Page 8
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