ON RIMUTAKA INCLINE
ILL-NOURISHED BODY OF A MAN FOUND. (Bi TELEGRAPH IMIESS ASSOCIATION.) MASTER-TON, 3rd Juno. The Coroner opened an inquest at Featherston pn a pporjy-noul-ished body of a man about 30 years of age, found in a.' sitting posture near the railway line on the Rimutaka incline on Monday morning. A surfaceman liiet him on Friday walking along the line half a mile from the spot. He said he was going through a tunnel of-broken fern. At two spots not far from the 'body there were cigarette' papers, a book, and a tweed cap, which indicated that he had been resting, 'and apparently fell from one spot down a 14ft bank" to 'the railway line. There were three deep wounds impossible to have been self-inflicted on the hack of the neck. A war pension certificate. No.. 1464, and the name Ern- ? j was found oji the body. The. inquest was adjourned. I
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 10
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153ON RIMUTAKA INCLINE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 10
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