CHILD KILLED BY TRAIN
VERDICT AT INQUEST (PBZBS ASSOCIATION TZZ.EOBAM.) WELLINGTON, September 13. "It is quite evident that these children had no business to be where they were," said the Coroner, at the inquest into the death of Lilian Conn, aged seven, who was struck by the engine of the Napier-Wellington express on September 2 on the railway bridge at Kaiwarra. The engine-driver of the express said he saw children on the bridge, apparently crawling across on thenhands and knees. He applied the emergency brake immediately. Another witness described how one girl reached the far side of the bridge in safety. The finding was that the child was accidentally killed through being knocked over by a locomotive, no blame being attributable to the enginedriver.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 14
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