UNEMPLOYED FRENCHMAN
ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE ENGINE COLLISION PREVENTED IN NICK OF TIME Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, February 26. (Received February 27, at H-55 a.m.) Armand Longle, unemployed, and tramping to Paris in search of work, saw a driverless engine at the Aulnoye station. Ho jumped aboard, and started off,'but, owing to ignorance ot the make, was only able to travel at two miles per hour. A wayside station master jumped on the footplate, and knocked out Longle, and reversed the engine into a siding, preventing a collision with the Paris express
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Evening Star, Issue 21965, 27 February 1935, Page 9
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91UNEMPLOYED FRENCHMAN Evening Star, Issue 21965, 27 February 1935, Page 9
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