RAILWAYMAN KILLED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 8 June 1937, Page 4

RAILWAYMAN KILLED

Fatality At Auckland Station Press Association—-Cony r’ght. Auckland, June 7. Crushed between the trailing bogie box of a shunting engine and the ground at the Auckland railway .station at 10.45 this morning, a railway employee named Henry John Gorman, a resident of Parnell, was, killed. Gorman was oiling and attending the points stand in the middle set of tracks leading to the outward goods sheds. As he attempted to step aside to allow an engine to pass he slipped and before he could recover himself the engine, although travelling slowly ran over him. “I saw Gorman looking after the points,” said Mr A. P. • H. Horne, shunter, who was riding on the locomotive. “I called out and he straightened up. As he stepped off the track he slipped. I called out to the driver to stop, but before the engine could be pulled up Gorman had been hit. The engine was travelling only about three or four miles an hour.” An inquest for identification was held this afternoon.