ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 81, 9 April 1915, Page 2

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN. Pee Peess Association. Palmerston North, April 8. A woman, named Winnie B. Broad, met her death by falling from a train at Bunnythorpe, near Palmerston North, to-day. The body was terribly mutilated beyond recognition. She was wearing a brooch monogram, "W. 8.8." and her handkerchief was marked "Winnie Broad." Traces show that she could only have met her death through falling from a train. Later particulars of the railway fatality show that luggage and other articles were found on the New Plymouth express on arrival at Thorndon, also a purse containing a steamer ticket to the South Island made out in the name of Miss Bainard. Information received from Eltham by the local police, however, shows that a woman named Winnie Broad, who had been staying with her brother-in-law, Weir, left by the New Plymouth express. As this coincides with the name on the handkerchief, it is practically .certain that the victim's name was Winnie Broad. It is understood she resided at Cosy Dell Road, North Dunedin.

Eltham reports as follows: —Winnie Broad, the victim of yesterday's railway accident, was a sister-in-law of Mr J. Lindsay Weir, solicitor, of tho firm of Syme and Weir, and was a daughter of Mr A. C. Broad, the wellknown business man and temperance advocate, Dunedin. Deceased, along with her mother, had been visiting her sister in Eltham, and left per mail train yesterday morning en route for Dunedin, her mother remaining here. She was 26 years of age.