FALL FROM TRAIN
DEATH OF A GIRL GUIDE
LONDON, August, 20
“Two children dead on the Bne,” read ia note .which the driver of the Paddington-Weymouth express threw on the Maidenhead platform as the train thundered through that station. Th e drivei had hurriedly scran led the note in his cap after h e had observed on the Tap.ow railway bridge over, the Thames the bod'es of d.g .e; Presland, aged 13, acid Doris T>hpkin®, aged 11, Girl Guides, .who wenleturned from a holiday camp in Somerset.
The ststionmaster and members of the- staff &et rignah against, ail
and hastened to the scene. in a pilot -mgiiae. 'lih-y found the girl Tompkins dead and her companion gravely injured lying between the up and down lines.
A member of the troop ) realising that the accident had occurred, puli'id the alarm cord of the engine in which sh e was travelling, but it did not stop until it was three miles from the scene.
The- two girls, it was stated, had been leaning through a window , to cool thfeir faces, owing, to the intense heat.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 3
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