Member for Taranaki killed.
FALLS OFF A TKAIN. (By Telegraph]—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Mr Edward Metcalfe Smith, M.H.R. for Taranaki, died at the hispital last night as the result of a railway accident. He had been in ill-health for some time, but felt com siderably better yesterday, and was attending to some business: He boarded the eleven o’clock train at Elliot-street for town, and was standing on the carriage platform. As the train was rounding a curve, he W&S seen by a letter-carrier on the road, to fall between the carriages, it j is presumed, during a fit of giddiness. Miraculously he fell between the rails and the wheels did not pass over him, but he received some severe bruises and lacerations of the head and face, being dragged some distance by the under-gear. The accident was not noticed by anyone on the train.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 4308, 20 April 1907, Page 3
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146Member for Taranaki killed. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 4308, 20 April 1907, Page 3
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