A WOMAN KILLED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 5

A WOMAN KILLED.

BODY FOUND ON THE RAILWAY. This morning at 6.7 o'clock, a woman's body was found on the cattle stops of the Government railway line- dose to the crossing ab the northern end of tho Thoradon Esphtnado. There were no signs of foul" play. Afc first It was thought that deceased had fallen off a train. Whether this was go or not, it Is difficult to say, Deceased appeared to havo been about 40 years' of ago. About three yards distant from the body there was found a, mnnll brown leather bag resembling a school bag. It bore th» name of "Katie, French, Alioetown, Lower HufcV and contained various artioles, By means of this bag the identity of the unfortunate woman was ascertained, enquiries disclosing the fact that she woa Mm. Emmrf French, wife of Oscar French, painter, Lower Hutt. The body was discovered by Edward Ernest Farnsworth, a guard employed by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, who resided at the hotol ab tho end of the Esplanade. He roported '■he matter to the police, and subsequently Detective Lewis and Constable Rowland examined the locality, and had the body removed to the Morgue. The detective stated that the body was fully dressed except that the hat was missing. The body wns lying about four yard* from the rails, ana hud evidently been there all night. He ex« amined it as far as possible under the circumstances, and found a very small cut surrounded by a bruise about the left ear. There also appeared to be a b'ruiso afc the^ back of the head,, but It was concealed to some extent by hair and blood which had flowed freely from th© left ear and nose. From the appearance of things It seemed as though deceased had been caught) by the cow catcher of a passdng train and thrown on to the cattle stops. The bufck of the neck was lying on the »h.<trp edge of one of the stop rails, and tho neck appeared to have been broken. Mrs. French, with her children, went to a picnic at the Upper Hutt yesterday, returning to the Lower Hutt during tie afternoon. She set out Again about 6 o'clock alone, and her movements therefvftjsr hare not been traced.