RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 17 April 1907, Page 2

RUN OVER BY A TRAIN.

ANOTHER CIIKINTCIIinCU UOIUSOK.' l'er l'ress Association. ~., ~ , Chrwtcliurc.il, April 1«. 1 ™ ist ol accideuts which have recently bombed the eiiriKU.-lni.ch public 'lnnng the last f ew weeks )liu l another a<l(le.i to it tbm morning, the identity of the victim Ih>iii k move or less surrounj. - cd in mystery. from the facts available it appears that the man evidently boarded the second express for tha south at noon to-day at Christehureh. llie tram was passing through the Aft* dington station, when Mr. train examiner, who was a passenger noticed an object lying on the line, and! as the express ran past the station, he called out to Wm. Sehrader, a signalman, and several of the porters, who were .standing on the platform, "Look backl" and pointed in the direction of the Lincoln Uoiul. The railway officials immediately grasped Mr. Corbett's meaning, find went along the line in order to as- ■ certain the cause of his remark. When near the junction of the north line with the main line, the railway .oilicials noticed a man lying near the metals with his head towards the line, and on picking him up, he was found to have a large wound in his head, from which the brain protruded. He was not complete-

ly dead at this time, though he was sinking rapidly. The parties instantly commumeiUcd with several doctors and the police, but before they arrived he had •xpired. Constable McKcefry, stationed at Addington, was quickly on the scene, and the only injury he could locate on the body was the one before-mentioned. An examination of the man's pockets revealed the return portion of a railway ticket to Itakaia and two full bottles of ' beer, which, strangely enough, were not broken in the fall. Nothing was found which would give the slightest indication to his identity, but probably enquiries, which are to be made at Rakaia, will establish who he is. Later. The man who was run over by the midday express near Addington to-day has been identified as Robert McAnuity, of AshbuTtoii,