Shocking Death of a €hiht.
A child named Addison, sixteen months old, eon of a fanner at Perth, toddled after his father across the railway line yesterday when the evening train ran over him, killing him instantaneously. His head was crushed into a pulp, and the brains strewn along the lino. A magisloiial inquiry was held and a verdict returned of accidental death with no blame attaching to anyone. It is supposed that the left front horn-plate of the bogie of the engine struck the child.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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86Shocking Death of a €hiht. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 217, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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