RAILWAY CROSSING ACCIDENT.
CORONER'S INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Tress Association.) DUXKDIN. this day. An inquest was completed to-day on the body of Charles Shaud. of Balclutlia, skin buyer, who was killed at Kakapuaka railway crossing on May 25. when the South express collided with his eoveredin wagon, throwing him against a post The evidence showed that there was a clear view of the line, and that the engine whistled three hundred yards otf and again when thirty yards distant, "verdict was returned that death was caused by concussion of the brain, no blame being attachable to the engine 'driver.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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