SHOCKING FATALITY.
WOMAN FALLS IN FRONT OF TRAIN. Ilawera, Yesterday. Apparently falling in front of a fast moving train Mrs, Gladys Ethel Evans, a young woman residing with her husband, W. K. Evans, at Ilawera, was killed instantly on the Turuturu road level railway crossing half a mile from Hawera station at about ten o’clock this morning. The train was a mixed goods and passenger, travelling south from New Plymouth to Hawera. When about a quarter of a mile from the crossing, the fireman and driver saw the. woman standing alone at a side crossing. The whistle was sounded and it appeared the woman was waiting for the train to pass. As it approached, she commenced to move along the cattle slop, steadying herself with her hand on the guard rail but just as the engine reached the cattle stop, she appeared to fall across the rail directly beneath the catcher. The body was practically cut to pieces, the upper portion being mutilated almost beyond recognition. Identification was established through a receipt found in her clothing.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3915, 7 March 1929, Page 2
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176SHOCKING FATALITY. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3915, 7 March 1929, Page 2
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