MAN ARRESTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 6

MAN ARRESTED

FOLLOWING ON NEVADA RAILWAY SMASH DENIES BEING NEAR PLACE RECENTLY. AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER'S STORY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) RENO, August 14. The arrest of the earless man reported to have been observed at the scene of the disaster to the express City of San Francisco is announced by the railway police. The man was taken off a goods train near here and removed to police headquarters, where, however. he insisted that he had not been in Eastern Nevada recently. The police officials said he was bitter against, the Southern Pacific Railway Company, alleging that he lost a foot and that his ears were mutilated in a railway accident some years before. He gave the name of Bob Laduceur, aged 28. Interviewed by a representative of the United Press of America Mrs Tomlin (an Australian) who is in the Elko (Nevada) Hospital, with three broken ribs, said: "Despite the horror, it wasn't bad. considering how lucky some of us were.” She explained that she was in an outer berth of a bedroom car which was smashed. Her husband. Mr L. B. Tomlin, was in an adjoining berth, but he was only slightly hurt when he was hit by golf clubs falling from a rack. Mrs Tomlin added that her husband was worried about business and having missed the Lurline, from Honolulu. “but his business would not be any good if ho were not alive. It was unpleasant on the way to the hospital from the scene of the accident,” she said. A man, who died later, kept asking for water and then said: “I guess I am going to live.” but five minutes later he was still.

An earlier message reported that Mrs Tomlin had been very seriously injured.