ENGINE TAKEN
FRENCH TRAMP'S ACT. IGNORANCE OF MECHANISM. SPEED ONLY TWO MILES AN HOUR. OFFICIAL KNOCKS HIM OUT. PREVENTING A COLLISION. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) PARIS, February 26. Armand Longle, an unemployed man who was tramping to Paris in search of work, saw a driVerless engine at Aulnoye station. He jumped aboard and started off, but owing to ignorance of the make was able to travel at the rate of. two miles an hour only. A wayside stationmaster jumped on the footplate, knocked out Lfengle, and reversed the engine into a siding, presenting a collision with the Paris express.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 117, 27 February 1935, Page 5
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