ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
KILLED ON THE KAILWAY. Per Press Association. Wellington, May 23. A middle-aged man named Alexander J. S. Thomson, a saddler by trade, (was killed to-night near the signal box ■at the Bunny Street end of Lamhtou Station. He was apparently going jto the wharves, and got on the line, where he had no business to he. The shunter who was riding in front of the 'engine saw nothing till the man sudjdenly lurched forward and fell under • the cow-catcher. The body was fearfully mangled, the skull being smashed 'and tlie left arm severed. Thomson died in a few minutes. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 3
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108ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 42, 24 May 1916, Page 3
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