KILLED BY AN ENGINE
SURFACEMAN’S UNTIMELY END. Press Association. DUNEDIN. February 4. An inquest on the body of March Ninian Johnson, tho surfaceman who was fatally injured through _ being dragged by a shunting engine on Saturday, was hold to-day. The evidence showed that tho deceased must have made a mistake as to the shunt that was in progress, thinking tho engine would take a different lino from the one he was working on. Tho coroner, Mr Graham, said there seemed to bo no evidence of _ negligence. The only mysterious point had been how tho driver did not seo tho man, and that was explained by tho fact that tho deceased was close enough to the engine to make it possible for him to bo overlooked. Ho would find that death was duo to injuries caused by being accidentally run over by an engine.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19130205.2.41
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
143KILLED BY AN ENGINE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8346, 5 February 1913, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in