ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, November 2-4. Mrs Ruth Eckett, of Ellerslie, boarded the wrong train at Newmarket, ancl, attempting to leap off after the train left, she fell between two carriages, but lay between tho rails, and had a miraculous escape from death. She was picked up stunned and badly cut, and was taken to the hospital. Her condition is not.serious. A SUICIDE. GBEYMOUTH, November 24. George Arthur Smith, aged 40, married, a visitor from Cliristchureh, committed suicide by jumping off the Cobden bridge this afternoon. Smith was recently released from a mental hospital on probation. The police are dragging for the body.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 250, 25 November 1914, Page 8
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