PHONE RUNG BY DEAD MAN
A REMARKABLE STORY.
LONDON, June 23. How a dead police constable set a telephone bell ringing in a stationmaster’s room was told at the inquest at Poplar yesterday on the body of Charles Edward Holland (39), of New Cross, an L.N.E.R. policeman, whose decapitated body was found at Shadwell Station on Wednesday. He had apparently fallen from a train in which he was returning from a police outing to Felixtowe. Alfred Arthur, a foreman, said that he heard the bell ringing in the stationmaster’s room and went to answer it. On the way.he found deceased’s body lying against the apparatus. The ringing ceased when the body was moved. Mrs Holland, who was in an hysterical condition, said she had a premonition that her husband was going to die. “This is a wicked world,” she said; “my husband was too good for it, and that is why they took him.” A verdict of “Accidental Death” was returned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1929, Page 10
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