MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY
EX-NAVAL OFFICER KILLED
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
DUNEDIN, Feb. 8
Through falling between the wheels of a sheep wagon in the railway yards to-day, James Harding, single, aged forty-one years, met his death. A train was in the yards, when it stopped to have the guard’s van taken off, tlnjn pulling up to Rattray Street crossing, where it stood for a few minutes. A railway porter at the crossing, after receiving the signal to let the train cross the road, noticed a man’s legs being turned over by the wheels of the train, and he immediately whistled to the driver to stop. No one knows how the man became entangled between the wheels, and no one is reported as having seen him in the yards.
The deceased was an ex-Chief Petty Officer in the New Zealand Navy and he was discharged recently from H.M.S. “Dunedin.” He was without relatives in New Zealand. The Secretary of the Returned Soldiers’ Association is making arrangements for the man’s funeral.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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