THE WELLINGTON RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 103, 28 April 1903, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

, DBATH OF MR. TRA.VKRS. \ FEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Wellington, April 27. ! Mr. Travers went to the railway . station to see a friend off and remained , in the carnage until the train began to move. In alighting on to the station |' platform he Icnecked against the guard, ,j who was keeping bys'aoders from the ,i train, and fell between the platform .! and the train, The train was immedi.j ate'y stopped and the sufferer, who was ,' perfectly conscious and self-possessed, was removed on a stretcher to his home, Medical assistance was sum- ! mooed, and it was found neoessary to : amputate the right leg, but Mr. Traverts | died at six this morning. He was 81 ! years of age / Air. Travera was very badly injured. j His noae was broken, his leg horribly j i crushed and other parts injured, Amputation of the l-'g was neoessary, and the operation took piaoe between 12 and 1, and he died a few hours later, J D. ceased, who still practised at the ' bar and was iu vigorous health, was the (oldest and one of the best knotvu | lawyers in th<* colony. He was a memj ber of thy Ex-.cutive in the first Eirlia- | ment of the colony, and hter a mem- , ber of the Houso oi Representatives. , He came to the iu 1849, fir«t settling in and th™ in Oaater- , bury, und finally in Wellington, all of whicn places he represented iu Pirlu- , imnut. He was onatf the founders and < ja prominent memb r of the New Zealand Institute. J Th-ie was a Urge gathering of the , legal fraternity in (Jourt this morning | whm Mr B 11, Prisid.nt of the N«w , jZ j aland Law Society, Mr Skerrett, . President of the Wellington btanch, land the Ohief Justice paid a high tti- t jbute to the personal character, high 'aS'aiDmeQt c , and public services of the E decetsjd gentleman. \