MURDER OF A FIREMAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 12, 25 August 1883, Page 2

MURDER OF A FIREMAN.

Dunkdim, La«t Night, As the 10 o'clock jjoods train from Clinton for In verear^i ll w.ts nearinj* tin Waaauna last night John Henderson, the , fiicnnn, vva«( "hof d »nd h_y a ni'in nnknoxvn fr.)«n the hank alon^ido The train put back to Clinton. The brike^man and driver were on the engine at the time, Henderson, who leaves a wife and family, Dsid.^d at InveroMrg'ill. There is no cluo to the perpetrator of the cowardly act.

i _ Later. No fr^qh information re murder is to hand. Guard Duncan says he saw two flashes ; immediately afterward* d^ceas^i • til row up his arms exclaiming, " Oil !> • Peti?v," to Potor Dunn, the driver of the. • engin ', and expired. Those on the train, 1 becjim^ frightened and extinguisht^ $j\

Kghts, and backed the train to Clinton Inspector Weldon find two di't'ctivo* proceeded to CHnton tlii^ n'oming. David Powell, gnmdiotvr. of Rivcihead, has been drowned. The Iwlv ] > been recovered Snow is on the unices at V"\ it ' -> '1 Drnry fortho first time within ti- » m -inoi \ of the oldest inhabitants. Ciltif hn\e <jied of exposmv. Blrmifim, T n-t Xiuht. A flnx mill owned hv Mi Pliil'ip Vcnco, van dctroy-'d hy (iro 1 ><t niuht. Then 1 ija no clue to the origin of the fire.