A man's face, peering through a window into the compartment of & rapidly-moving trait, provided a shocit for two passengers on the Southend to Liverpool street line. It was shortly after this that Charles William Stead, ased 28, a painter, of Forest Glade, Whipps Cross, was found dead on th<s line, near the Bishopsgate tunnel. At the resumed City inquest Harry Edward Graystone, of Parkhurst road, Manor Park, said that when the train in which he and his sweetheart were travelling was between Manor Park and Forest Gate his sweetheart called outr "Oh look, Harry!" A few minutes later he saw a man's face at the window. The man went back along the footboard to the nest compartment. "Death by misadventure" was the verdict.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18680, 1 May 1926, Page 9
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