BODY ON RAILWAY LINE
WOMAN PASSENGER KILLED CROSSING-KEEPER’S DISCOVER J [ Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 3. j The body of a first-class railway i passenger, Mrs. J. M. Shelley, of •Hawarden, was discovered on the per- ; manent way near the Waltham rail- | way crossing by the crossing keeper, 'at 6.30 a.m. The woman was dead I and must have been killed almost instantaneously. i She had severe head injuries and '.suffered terrible arm wounds. The dead woman was a passenger on the early steamer express train for Lyttelton. No one saw the accident and the train went on without her disappearance being noticed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 11
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103BODY ON RAILWAY LINE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 11
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