RELIEF WORKER KILLED
BY RAILWAY ENGINE. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, May 15. A fatal accident occurred in the railway yards this morning when Thaddeus Edward McMahon, a relief worker, was run over by an engine and killed instantaneously. Deceased, with another man, was about to join a train to Puketeraki, where he was to have worked, and he was walking along by the line when the engine came up from behind, and he was dragged under. His body was terribly mutilated. The deceased was a married man with six children. DUNEDIN, Majr 12. About seven o’clock this evening on the Main North Rotfd, seme three miles south of Waikouaiti, Joseph Bray, a dairy farmer, of Merton was killed outright as the restalt of being knocked off his horse by a motor lorry.
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Grey River Argus, 16 May 1933, Page 5
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