FALL FROM TRAIN
WOMAN KILLED ON LYTTELTON LINE. BODY FOUND ON PERMANENT WAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The body of a first-class railway pas-, senger, Mrs J. M. Shelley, of Hawarden, was discovered on the permanent way, near the Waltham railway crossing. by a crossing keeper, at 6.30 a.m. today. The woman was dead and must have been killed almost instantaneously. She had severe head injuries and suffered terrible arm wounds. The dead woman was a passenger on the early steamer express for Lyttelton. No one saw the accident and the train went on without her disappearance being noticed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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101FALL FROM TRAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 6
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