NEW LYNN FATALITY
PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY.’
In connection with the shocking railway fatality at New Lynn Auckland), brief details of which were telegraphed, a lady passenger said that when deceased, Alexander 'Ellis, aged 17 years, arrived at the platform he looked tired and pale. He put his bag on the platform of the carriage, and took off his hat. The train then started. The deceased wiped his forehead, put his hand to his head, and fell forward through tile open gateway. Charles 1). Thomson, tablet porter at New Lvnn. said lie gave the clear signal, which the driver acknowledged with a whistle. Witness turned round, and then heard j, bumping noise in the signal machinery. Looking out, he saw a carriage rocking, and at once signalled the tram to stop. The driver evidently noticed the dragging-, because he applied hibrakes Immediately. Witness ran to tbe line, where be found deceased in a sitting posture at the rear of the train, between tbe lines and tbe platform.’ Witness said: “Aloe,. old boy, how did this happen?” Witness replied: “Put me out of my misery.” There were indications that deceased had been dragged about 42ft along the line. His lower limbs were badly crushed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1920, Page 1
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205NEW LYNN FATALITY Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1920, Page 1
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