What Is Accidental Death?

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 77, 9 April 1885, Page 4

What Is Accidental Death?

(To the Editor). Sir,—Allow me to call attention'to t» accident (?) by which Misg;^^S»U_ii_i| her death. It appears ttatfu jifliß; from a night train at Penrose .He _teps between the carriage and:tlwfi3* receiving injuries from which she dM The jury brought in a verdict of «_)_ dental Death,' T entirely exoneratipg the i railway officials, though expressing t ted-' ing that the platform shonld be feftt lighted. Is not this absani! _tl» platform is so insufficiently; _■ lighted that a lady cannot . see 'it,; aS « incurs fatal injuries, siiwly nut "railway official" is to blame. Hoti poor station-mastor, or guard, or porta, but one o_ the big-wigs whose careloais. or false economy has dona to deatl Ha Spalding. But surely: soiffjOf tboiijnn 'i must have known that thernle^poaiS ; tho best English railways,. _ ; to have the platform as high:: a.: tk floor ot the carriages, and'hilt si as almost to touch them. Bad: the ?«• rose platform been so,con_liuct*d Ms Spalding would have been alive i__r. Had I been a juryman, I wonldiaveinastedoi a verdict of " manslaughter *^n»t>_-J over designed the platform,,-; Ibtt . _u_r| have brought the blanieis_e._ 'the biM official, and ultimately to ike Goverameatjl -I am, &c , ASTRA. GBtM-TittBOBTII, 1