Extraordinary OccurRENCE.
FIREMAN «HOT X)EAD ON HIS ENGINE.
NO CLUE TO THE ASSASSfN.
(by telegraph.) (UNITED PEESB ASSOCIATION ) Uunjbdht, This Day. M tjbg .lfi ' o^Jocfe^ggpis. Jetaia^rona Cliatoa for the Invercargill was nering Wairana last lait nigbt, .John Headeraon, fireman, was shot_dea^by Jtinai^. unkaowny from the banlc alongside the line. The train put back to Clinton. The firakeggiaiTaQdj "driVer^ware 1 dlr the engine at the time. Henderson's wife a^d family tfeside iaiaTeroargilt'Tthere 1 is" no cluetd the assasiin. i' n d ,;x I !. | - Latbb. | No fresh information re- murder to hknd. The guard j>ancan says fcsaV two flashes ; immediately after the se-» v c(|nd,the deceased threw'up his arms. exclaimirig; •. I .X oh, ■' &&»' to Peter 1 XXean, driver of theengiae.'ahd expired.' Those on, thp.tfain became Irjgbjteaed, , extinguisliedl all lights, and' bac^d tEe nrkin into Olinton. inspector Weldon
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 24 August 1883, Page 2
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135Extraordinary Occur-RENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 224, 24 August 1883, Page 2
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