RAILWAY FATALITY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8401, 17 April 1907, Page 5

RAILWAY FATALITY.

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 16.' The list of accidents which have recently horrified the Christchurch public raring the last few weeks had another added to it, this morning, the identity of the victim being more or less surrounded in mysstery. From the facts available, it appears that the man evidently boarded the second express for the South, at noon to-day, at Christchurch. The train was passing through the Addington station when Mr Corbett, a train examiner, who was a passenger, noticed an object lying on the line, and as the express ran past the station he tailed out to William Schrader, a signalman, and several of the porters. who were standing on the platform, "Look back!" and pointed in the direction of Lincoln Road. The railway officials immediately grasped Mr Corbett's meaning, and went along the line in order to ascertain the cause of his remark. When near the junction of the north line with the main line the railway officials noticed a man lying near the metals with his head towards the line, and on picking him up he was found to have a large wound in his head. He was not dead, though he was. sinking rapidly. The parties instantly communicated with several doctors, and the police,'but before they arrived he had expired. Constable McKeafry, stationed at Addington, was quickly on the scene, and the only injury he could locate on the body was the one before mentioned. An examination of the man's pockets revealed the return portion of a railway ticket to Rakaia and two full bottles of beer, which, strangely enough, were not broken in the fall. Nothing was found which would give the slightest indication to his identity, but probably enquiries which are to be made at Rakaia will establish who he is. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 16. The man who was run over by the mid-day express near Addington, today, has been identified as Robert McAnulty, of Ashburton.