PAPERSPAST

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Plucky Policeman.

(Per Press Association.) Napier, Last Night, An apcident occurred at the Waipawa railway station torday. As the tain was starting south ah elderly woman named Mary Moran, who was just getting off the train, slipped and fell on the line, but Serge.int McKelvey caught hold of her as she fell and pluckily held her against tha platform while five carriages passed, though he sustained several severe bruises on his hand in doing so. The woman was at once conveyed to Dr Reed's residence, where it was found that she had sustained a fracture of one . leg, and the other foot had been crushed. The- woman is now doing well.

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