WOMAN ON LINE: TRAIN STOPPED
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 23. A Manurewa man on Saturday night climbed down a 40ft railway cutting near the Jutland Road footbridge to where a 37-year-old woman was lying injured and used his torch to signal an approaching train to stop. The woman, Mrs Geneva Chapman, of Gloucester Road, Manurewa, was today progressing favourably in Middlemore Hospital.
The man, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “I went outside and heard a woman screaming for help. My father-in-law and I got in the car and went round to the railway bridge. We saw a young boy in a dressing
gown near the tracks. He said that a woman had fallen off the bridge. “I had a torch, and so I went down. The woman had back injuries. I thought it was not safe to move her. “I got my torch and made S.O.S. signals. The train driver stopped within 20 or 30ft of the woman.” The police declined to comment today on the incident
Mr Riddiford “unchanged.” —The Minister of Justice (Mr Riddiford) is still a patient at the Wellington Hospital, his condition being described today .as “unchanged.” Mr Riddiford was admitted to hospital a fortnight ago with a suspected
coronary condition.--(P.A.)
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32462, 24 November 1970, Page 2
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