RUN OVER BY TRAIN
SINGLE MAN KILLED FALL WHILE BOARDING
(Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day
A man was killed when run over by a train near the Christchurch railway station about 4.15 p.m. yesterday. He was Arthur Leshke, a single man, aged 48, residing at 68 Kingsley street, Sydenham. Mr. Leshke, who was a pottery worker by trade, was a returned soldier. It is believed that he was trying to board a moving train and fell.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 4
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