ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
RETURNED SOLDIER MUTILATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wanganui, Last Night. When the express train from Wellington was drawing into Aramoho station to-night a returned soldier, Private T. M. Kane, attempted to leave the carriage. He fell under tho wheels, six of which passed over his body, and the seventh wheel rested on the horribly mutilated remains when the train pulled up, and the railway staff had the grueBome job of lifting the wheel with jacks. The carriage in which deceased travelled was filled with soldiers. DEATH BY STRANGULATION. Wellington, Last Night. At the inquest on Private Joseph Evans, an inmate of Trentham Military Hospital, whose body was found hanging in the gymnasium on Sunday morning, a verdict was returned that deceased died by strangulation caused by hanging himself, 110 blame being attachable to any other person. It is believed deceased hod no relatives in the Dominion, !iis next-of-kin. residing at Bristol, England.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1919, Page 5
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154ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1919, Page 5
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