FATALITY IN THE LYTTELTON TUNNEL.
Christchurch, May 20. The third fatality in the Lyttelton tunnel within ten weeks occurred last night, when a woman of 42 (the wife of a Christchurch resident) who had escaped from Sunnyside Mental Hospital 4.30 in the afternoon, received terrible injuries from which she died in the Christchurch Hospital. When last seen alive, the womans was standing on the platform just as the 5.25 train from Christchurch left Heathcote Station to enter the tunnel. At the inquest to-day, the medical superintendent of Sunnyside gave evidence that the woman had probably committed suicide, as she had shown suicidal tendencies. The inquest was adjourned.. The woman leaves a family of seven children.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2583, 22 May 1923, Page 2
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115FATALITY IN THE LYTTELTON TUNNEL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2583, 22 May 1923, Page 2
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