HIS FATE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2319, 25 March 1914, Page 4

HIS FATE.

TWICE KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAINS. FIRST CRIPPLED, THEN KILLED.

Sydney, March 16. Ten months ago Douglas Lee Man* sell, aged 16, an engine checker, employed at Eveleigh loco yards, was knocked down by an engine, and one of his feet was cut off. H e remained in a hospital till the mangled limb had' healed, when he was fitted with an artificial foot, and returned to his work. But it was his fate to bo killed on the railway, and this came about on Saturday week. He was crossing the lines near wher c his foot had been cut off, when ho was knocked down by an engine driven by Maurice McCarthy, with Darcy Stewart Carruthers as fireman. His neck was broken, and he died on the spot. An inquest was held this morning, when the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, and remarked that he thought tho men on the engine ought to have seen Mansell —particularly as ho was crippled, and would }_aye crossed slowly..