MYSTERIOUS RAILWAY FATALITY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2427, 19 November 1892, Page 3

MYSTERIOUS RAILWAY FATALITY.

A strange accident happened at the Kogarah Railway Station, New South Wales, on the 10th ult., when a young girl named Lilian Beatrice Bond, aged 19 years, was run over and killed by a train. The girl had been staying with some friends in Austral street, Kogarah, and about 7 o’clock, in company with her mother, went to the railway station to proceed by the first train to Sydney. While waiting on the platform Miss Bond expressed a desire to go the ladies waiting-room, and left her mother for that purpose. She did not return, and when the train arrived shortly after Mrs Bond entered a car, thinking that her daughter would follow. However, nothing more was seen of the girl alive. About 11 o’clock a resident of Kogarah named Daniel Hickey, while walking along the platform of the station, saw the body of a young woman lying on the up line near the platform. The night officer, Andrew Leeding was informed, and the body of the girl, who was quite dead, was placed on a stretcher and carried into the station. The police were communicated with and Sergt. M’Cole identified the body as that of Lilian Bond. A letter was found in her pocket, and read at the inquest. It proved to have been an unfinished note written by the deceased on the day of her death to her sister in England. The letter had evidently been written while the author was suffering great mental pain, and disclosed the fact that she had entertained a passionate regard for some man who apparently did not return her love. One passage of the letter ran thus :—‘Forgetfulness of him will cease only with death. Again, I charge you to tell him all, but only in the event of my premature death. Let it be clearly understood. Make no mistake, dear.’ The jury recorded a verdict to the effect that the deceased was knocked down at the level crossing by a passing train, and that the occurrence was accidental.