MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.
A pointsman, Robert Moore, who was said to have-been indirectly the cause of the recent fatal collision on the railway at the! bottom of the Zig-Zig, near Litbgow (New South Wales), when the trucks broke away from their couplings and ran into a goods train, causing the death of a fireman, committed suicide on May 25. He was found dead with a bullet wound in his head, a few yards from the platform, near the scene of the accident. For some days past the deceased had been despondent, in consequence of having been reproached for his connection with the accident, and having been told by many persons that he might have averted dt by turning the trucks on to another lino.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 13 June 1883, Page 2
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123MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1046, 13 June 1883, Page 2
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