FALLS FROM TRAINS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3080, 30 December 1908, Page 3

FALLS FROM TRAINS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, December 29. On the arrival of the last express from the South last night, it *vas re ported that a man, considerably under the influence of liquor, had fallen from one of the leading carriages as the train was nearing Christchurch. Search parties were immediately organised, and the track scoured as far as Addington, but witbout result. A trolly was then run on rails an far as Middleton, six men seai'ching without success. The outgoing goods train at midnight was instructed to keep a look out as far as Islington. .The man was described as being under middle age, rough looking, with a black moustache and wearing a fait hat. He joined the express train at Timaru. Later. A middle-aged man, named Bass Brough, turned up at the Police Station to-ri-jy, and said it was he who fell off t'tie express last night nine ■ milrts from Christchurch. He was unhurt and left to-day for his home at Kaikoura. A man named Arthur Higg« fell off the second express from the South near Rakaia, on Saturday night, and was picked up apparently none the worse. He spent the night at Dunaandel, and came on to Christchurch yesterday. I