A DISTRESSING RAILWAY FATALITY.
TKR PIiKSS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, January 3. An accident of a distressing nature happened at 2,30 a.m. to-day, when Miss .Timet Robertson, aged 35, n dressmaker, employed at Temuka, and the daughter of an o!d resident of Oiimaru, fell off the midnight train from Dunedin to Christchurch and was killed. Deceased boarded the train at Oumuru. It was noticed by other passengers in the same carriage that she looked very ill. Near Studholme Junction she took her hat and cloak and went outside on to the carriage platform and there it is thought, she was taken ill. The passengers felt the carriage jolt and finding her missing informed the guard, who ascertained she had fallen between the carriages and been cut to pieces. When pieking up the remains of the body a fully matured male child was found within them
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8019, 4 January 1906, Page 2
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143A DISTRESSING RAILWAY FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8019, 4 January 1906, Page 2
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