FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
By T6legraph~Press Association. LYTTELTON, April 14. About 8 p.m., on Saturday night, an elderly lady named Mrs Amelia Bisphan, wife of George Bisphan, of Nelson, was run over and killed alongside the railway platform at Lyttelton. Mrs Bisphan, who Was staying with the wife of her brother, Mr Byron, bootmaker, Lyttelton, left Christchurch. 'at 7-35 p.m. by a special through steamer train with the pasasengers for the Mararoa. Reaching'Lyttelton the train slowed down considerably, and Mrs Bisphan evidently attempted to alight at the eastern end of the platform and fell under the carriage and was killed instantly. An inquest was held this afternoon and the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. There was no evidence to show how the deceased got under the train.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 7
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128FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8400, 15 April 1907, Page 7
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