KILLED HIS OWN SON.
TRAGEDY IN RAILWAY YARDS. (Prom Our Own Correspondent) VANCOUVER, July 12. When Donald Smith, a railway engineer, was operating a shunting locomotive in the railway yards at Brantford he heard cries just as his engine appeared to bump something. Stopping immediately, he climbed down from his cab, to find that his locomotive had run over his own five-year-old son, who,' from ■ his home nearby, had wandered away.-to watch the trains. - . ' '
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 192, 15 August 1929, Page 24
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