RAILWAY TRAGEDY
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Children On Bridge
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, Last Night. "It is quite evident that these children had no business to be where they wero," said the coroner at tho inquest into the death of Lilian Conn, agcd seven years, who was struck by the engine of the Napier-Wellington express on September 2 on the railway bridge at Kaiwarra. The engine-driver of the express said he saw two children on tho bridge, api«uinently crawling across on their hands and knees. He appiied the emergency brake immediately. Another witness described how one girl reached the far side of the bridge in safety. The finding was that the child was accidentally killed as a result of being knocked over by the locomotive, no blame being attributable to the enginedriver.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 5
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