ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A TRAIN.
FENCING POSTS ON TUB LIN'S. By Telegraph—Press Association. Palmerston North, .Tune 30. At attempt wate made 011 Saturday night to derail an evening train -near Bunnythorpe. Some fencing rails were removed from. a paddock near by and ])laced across the rails at the northern end of the bridge over "Jack's Creek." Fortunately the pT.aniks were not very substantial, otherwise there might easily have been, serious results. It was first thought that it was the work of children, hut ion examination of the locality the prints of a man's boots of about isizo i) were found. Nothing of the occurrence was known till yesterday morning, when the broken planks wore found alongside the line, one plank being found about two chains away.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19140701.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 35, 1 July 1914, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126ATTEMPT TO DERAIL A TRAIN. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 35, 1 July 1914, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in