SHOCKING TRAIN FATALITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 162, 8 January 1912, Page 5

SHOCKING TRAIN FATALITY.

1 1* MAN AND WOMAN KILLED. . ■ By Telegraph—Press, Association. ' / Thames, Last.Night. A shocking accident occurred! on Saturday night on the Kauaranga r-ivee *> railway bridge, neaT Thames.'- 'lKd&ilrj rival at Thames of the 9.20 train, -sh<i * driver was making his usual examination 1 of the engine, when he discovered aj man's cap on the front portion: ' 81003 stains, hair and pieces of flesh proved beyond a doubt that a fatality hail occurred. Th e/ police with, and a search commenced. The awful discovery was made that two persons had met their death with-startling suddenness. ] The body of Waiter 3ftj , a local carrier, was found 1 ft the river/> • \ while the .body of a half-caste native * woman, named Te Pere, &<m ;4o' year*:was found on the bnag fi -- teSrjbly mutilated. The man was flwfetnea* the* (■ river bank, and the a slaW some distance from the baafc Exactly ' 1 how the_ fatality mystery., ■ ™h th*" 1 ? t'T did "to*** bu4,' Z and though he kept a,gb«Wdok' T; - saw no one. The presumpfifc * thail v , the couple, not knowing of the holiday ' • change in the trains, thought that the last train had passed, and after the bridge sat down, had some fish an(U " beer, and went to sleep. ■- " 1 * *, i i''