KILLED BY TRAIN
Accident at Otahuhu
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, June 16.
Run over by the wheels of a carriage of a suburban passenger train at Otahuhu station early this morning, Richard Edelsten, 54 years of age, an unemployed motor painter, of Otahuhu, was. killed instantaneously. Mr. Edelsten had left his home shortly before 8 a.m. to travel to Auckland by train. As the 8.18 train was moving slowly from the island platform, Mr. Edelsten was seen running across the lines of the eastern sidings toward the rear carriage. On feeling unusual bumps, the guard signalled the train to stop, and the body of Mr. Edelsten was found on the line. The wheels of the last carriage had passed over his chest. Mr. Edelsten, who leaves a wife and two children. was a returned soldier, having served with the Australian forces during the Great War.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 223, 17 June 1936, Page 12
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