HANGING FROM SIGNAL STANDARD
CDRPBE CONFRONTS TRAIN CREW (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 28. When the midnight goods train from Christchurch to Ashburton reached Norwood at 2 o’clock this morning the driver saw a body hanging from the automatic signal standard. The train was stopped, and the crew called up the train control officer at Christchurch from Norwood station. Train control advised the central police station, and the train was held until the arrival of police from the city. The man. was dead when his body was taken down by the driver and guard of the train. He was identified this morning as Fred Parris, aged 52, a married man, of (Raugiora. He was a veteran of the 1914-18 war, and had been in ill-health for some time.
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Evening Star, Issue 25677, 28 December 1945, Page 4
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