KILLED BY A TRAIN.
LEVEL CROSSING FATALITY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. A fatal accident occurred at the Rattray Street railway crossing at 8.45 tonight, John Roberts, 33, a ship's fireman, being run over by a railway locomotive proceeding from the station to the sheds.
The crossing keeper's attention was occupied warning four others on the opposite side of the street, and he did not apparently see the deceased approaching. The body was cut in two, the lower half being carried twenty yards. From papers and effects found in the deceased's pockets he was apparently engaged (n the Home trade. He was born in Liverpool, and liis parents still live there.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 5
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112KILLED BY A TRAIN. Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 5
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