TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 7

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT. i YOUNG LADY CRUSHED 10 DEATH. [By Telepravfr—Cress Association.] PALMERSTON N., April 9, , Tlie body of Ellen Louise Oates, who wa,s killed on the Main Tnmk train :>ear Otaki yesterday, was brought to Palmerston North last night by her brother, a well-known local cycle and phonograph agent. Miss Oates was aged 26. nnd had been staying with ahOtllGl' Tu'flthW itu was not in good health, and was on fc&r way to !k-r In-otlior m Palmerston with hey mother. When about two miles north of. Otaki. she went on to.- 1 the platform, and betwOOll the j carriages. By the rime the fjuflvd could J be informed the express Was far past, and stoped at Mauftkau, where the railway men wero sent baqk with a trolly. They found the boay terribly mangled, ryud with one leg severed, and took tho body back to Otaki. Death must have been instantaneous. The inquest will bo opened to-morrow morning to take Mrs Oates' evidence and permit the body to be removed to Christ-church, where the family reside, for burial. WOMAN BRUTALLY ASSAULTED, j TBy Telegraph—-Press Association-'] BLENHEIM, Last Night. On Saturday evening an old woman named J. Greeves, who lived alone at Grovestown, was brutally assaulted. A man entered her cottage where the woman was in bed, and struck her in tlie face with his fist. Upon his victim screaming out, it is alleged that he attempted to strangle her. When help arrived the man had escaped, j The police are investigating the mat- : ter, but so far have not succeeded in obtaining any clue to the identity of the assailant. A SETTLER DROWNED. [By Tch'(jrapk—Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Last Night. A man named Arthur Ryan, an Akawa settler, was drowned whilo bathing at Luke's Beach, Tamaki River, Otahuhu, yesterday afternoon. Ryan, who was about fifty years of age staving with his wife at +' of br. Kowlev, his ' 4 , vesitUilitJ© Vt t'- 'rt v K aiteV'nboh Sfet, ? 1 .. ,*V n-rt-the. As lve did ndfc turn wi>en his rolatioiYs >*,- ; came anxious, and, instituting a search, discovered his clothed; in tlie bathing hut at seven o'clock in the evening. Tlie facts were reported to the police and after n further search Ryan s body was found two hours later, on tho beach, the tide having receded. Deceased was known to be ■ good swimmer, and it is surmis that his death resulted, thro A cramp.