A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Out to pieces by a Train
Dunedin, August 2
Ambrose Phillips, till quite recently a baker at Caversham, threw himself beneath the wheels of a train at Caversham to-night. He was cut in two and disembowelled before the eyes of his wife, who was with him on the platform. Mr and Mrs Phillips had returned by the train from Mosgiel. The act was as sudden as it was unexpected. It was witnessed by two railway officials, who were not in time to prevent the tragedy. Deceased was a baker for thirty years in Caversham, where he was much respected. He possessed a particularly sanguine temperament till qtrite lately, when he sold his business. After this he became melancholy, and complained of having sold at a loss. The act was apparently unpremeditated, and it is thought that deceased was suddenly seized with a fit of madness.
Mrs Phillips is in a state of collapse. Deceased was sixty-one years old, and had a grown-up family of sons and daughters.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 3 August 1907, Page 3
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170A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3769, 3 August 1907, Page 3
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