ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 20117, 6 March 1929, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

CUT TO PIECES. Apparently falling in front of a fastmoving train, Gladys Ethel Evans, a young inn tried woman residing with her husband, W. R. Evans, at Hawera, was killed instantly on the Turnturu road level railway crossing, half a mile Irom Hawera station, about It) o’clock yesterday morning. The train was a mixed goods and passenger one, and was travelling south from New Plymouth to Hawera. When about a quarter of a mile from the crossing, the fireman and driver saw a woman standing alone at the side of the crossing. The whistle was sounded, and it appeared that the woman was waiting for the train to pass. As the train approached, she commenced to move along the cattle stop, steadying herscll with one hand on the guard rail; but just as the engine reached the cattle .stop she appeared to fall across the rail directly beneath the cowcatcher. The body was practically cut to pieces, the upper portion being mutilated almost beyond recognition. identification was established through a receipt found, and the clothing.—Press Association. CRUSHED IN PAUL OE EARTH. Working on a road deviation undertaking at Apili yesterday morning, a yqung unmarried labourer named Jock Marsden, aged thirty, met his deatli through being crushed by a fall of earth (states a Palmerston North message). The scene of the accident was a big cutting which is being made at at the top of the hill on the main rand leading into Apiti at a point about three miles on the Feilding side of the township. While Marsden was working a horse dray a big fall of earth came down and overwhelmed him. In spite of tho prompt rescue work Marsden was found to lie dead, having apparently been killed outright. The deceased formerly resided in Christchurch, but more recently in Palmerston North. POUND DEAD. 'The dead body of Peter Hunt, a returned soldier, was found in a house at New Brighton last evening. .Hunt, who lived alone in the house, had not been seen for several days. The owner of the house forced the door, and found the body lying on the llobr. DEATH PROM BULLET WOUND. That the deceased died from the effects of a bullet wound, self-inflicted, while in a state of mental depression, was the verdict returned yesterday afternoon by the jury at the conclusion of the inquest on the death of Stanley Milburn, whose body was found in a paddock on Saturday. One juror dissented from the verdict of suicide.—lnvercargill message.