INQUEST ON DEATH OF SOLDIER SETTLER
CROSSING FATALITY Press Association. WAIPUKURA.U, Wednesday. An inquiry before Dr. Kendall, the district coroner, was conducted this morning into the death of Francis William Walsh,* aged 30, a soldier settler of Takapau, at the Ruataniwha Street railway crossing at Waipukurau on July 28. Air. Kent, solicitor, represented Thomas Power, a settler, of Tukapku. the driver of the car concerned, and Mr. M. Vance, traffic inspector, Wellington, the department. The principal evidence was given by Power and William Richard Morris, of Napier, the engine-driver. A verdict of accidental death from injuries to the skull and brain received in a collision between the car driven by Power and the Wellington-Napier mail train was recorded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 15
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