EXTRA EDITION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 48, 26 February 1906, Page 8

EXTRA EDITION.

THE RAILWAY FATALITY. INQtM&T AT THE MOROUK, Ati inqurit was opened beforb Mr. Ashcroft, City Coroner, id the Morgue Ihis afternoon, touching the death of Mrs. Emma French) of Lowrr Hutt, who was found dead on n eattlo slop alongside (ho railway lino near the Esplanade. Hotel on -Saturday morning. Mr. Myeis appeared for the Railway Department. Dr. Tripe, who conducted n post-mor-tem exnminntion, tlotnilcd tho injuries roceived by deceased, including \<outids on tho left flido of the, face and head, a fractured skull, nnd n broken neck, and injuries on other parts of tho body, and to the, lungft and other internal organs. There was no traco of stimulants in the stomach. PJither the broken neck, the rupture, of tho lung, or tho fracture at tho base of the skull would bo sufficient to cai;go death. All the injuries could bo caused by a violent fall, such as a fall from tho platform of a, railway enrriago in motion. To Sub-Inspector Donovan : It was not i probable that tho injuries could have boon caused by a, railway engino striking deceased, Tho injurlos would havo been very much greater, and involved tearing olid laceration of body and 'limbs. Oscar French, husband of deceased, snid thnt his wit*© had gone with the children to a picnic at Upper Hutt, nnd arrived back tit 4.40 p.m, About 6.16 p.m. she had started with tho intention of going into town to see her mother. Since then witness had not seen her alive. James Mncfarlane Williamson, a railway guard on tho Suburban service, said he had been on duty on Friday night, nnd Imd won deceased coming Into town by the 6.36 p.M, train, which she hnd boarded nt l J otone. Witness had been In charge of the 8.30 p.m. nnd 10.25 p.m. trains out, and deceased hnd not been on board either of them. Deceased, when he, saw her, was perfectly sober. • James Quin, foreman \\t tho Thorndon station, deposed that he had beoli on duty on Friday evening und had not seen deceased, i Acting«Detectiv6 Lowis gavo evidence regarding the finding of tho body, which h*d beon discovered about 6 a.m. on Saturday last bv_ Edward E, Farnworth, railway guard."" (Loft sitting,)