TROOPER’S SUDDEN DEATH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 2

TROOPER’S SUDDEN DEATH

DUNEDIN SOLDIER RUN OVER.

Per Press Association

Wellington, February 7

A sad accident occurred at Lambton Station on Saturday night, in which Private Frederick William Black, a Dunedin member of the 4th reinforcements, met his death. Black was found lying on the rails next to the platform at 11 p.m. Ho was unconscious, and terribly injured,, his condition showing that he had been run over by a train some time pieyiously. No one, apparently, saw the occurrence, but Black was known to be standing on the platform of a carriage attached to the outgoing train to Trentham. It is surmised that he fell and was run over by that train, or that he fell in front of the incoming Hutt train, which arrives at Lambton at 10.50 p.m. Dr. Henry was summoned immediately. Black was found by some of the station hands, but he died in the waiting-room just before the doctor arrived. Besides severe internal injuries and wounds on Ids head, he had an arm

Hiul a leg broken. Jt is understood tlinfc Black was a son of .Mrs .Janet Black, a widow residing in Monington, Dunedin.