WOMAN’S DEATH

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1936, Page 5

WOMAN’S DEATH

Hit by Locomotive AUCKLAND MYSTERY. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. Al ay 10. Found lying unconscious on the Railway line at Papatoetoe Station, about 6.30 p.m. on Saturday. Airs. Louie, Thompson, aged 61. widow, employed as housekeeper at Papatoetoe. died at the. hospital a few hours later. From the. nature of her injuries, it is concluded Airs. Thompson was struck by th,, engine and thrown clear of the lines. The first indication of anything untoward having occurred was the discovery of a. woman’s shoe on the island platform' by the guard of a train duc« to leave Papatoetoe for the city. He reported the matter to the Stationmaster. Air. A. N, Bassett, who made a search at the northern end of I he, platform, where the shoe was found. Airs. Thompson was found Iving between thi.> platform ami the near line of the main sou'll I rack. She had suffered severe ll<(ld injuries. So far as has been ascerlaine«l. no one saw the. mishap, or can throw any light on the cause ot the deceased’s death. Airs. Thompson had travelled to Auckland on her usual •weekly visit, to friends in the city. Leaving Papatoetoe about mid-day. It, was her custom to return on the 5.10 train from Auckland, which reaches Papatoetoe on route for Papakura at 5.42. No other train passes over the track where the deceased was found between 5.42 and the time she was discovered on the line. The engine of the train due to leave Papatoetoe for the city at 6.35 does, however, traverse this track. The discovery of the woman's hat on the track about 160 yards north of the spot where Airs. Thompson was found, was made this morning, lit is thought, the unfortunate woman may have been searching the track for her hat in the darkness, and had been knocked down by the engine as it proceeded over the loop line. CYCLIST’S FATAL INJURIES. AUCKLAND. Alay 10. Fatal injuries were sustained by Harry W. Williamson, a married man, employed by the Public Works Department at Gordonton, when the bicycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a motor lorry on the Cambridge Road at Hillcrest, last evening. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital suffering from grave head injuries. but died this morning.

MACHINIST’S FATAL INJURY. AUCKLAND. May .10. Struck by a piece of timber at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops on . Saturday morning, a wood machinist, Alexander McLeod O’Brien, aged 41. married, of Te Papa, received internal injuries, which subsequently proved fatal. ( Motor Cycle Tragedy AT DANGEROUS BRIDGE. May 10. While Mr. J. G. Graham, a well known Poverty Bay farmer, was riding along Waimata Road, this morning. in company with Mr. J. Alexander, agricultural adviser of Kera'ptliorue. Prosser’s staff, Auckland, Graham told the visitor of an accident that had occurred near a dangerous bridge some time ago when a party of Maoris went over in a ear. and had a marvellous escape from death. The ear was stopped, and the visitor looked over, and said that he could see a motor-cycle and a man’s body lying in the creek below. They hurriedly descended and found the body was that of Josiah Hafvey Watton, head shepherd on Maka. Station. The motor cyclo and side-car were lying dose

by. The bridge has no rails, and i; .'ippi'ars evident that the outer wheel of lhe sideear must have gone over Iho side, mid the complete vehicle capsized down the straight cliff about feet into the creek. Walton was or years of age trad, unmarried. His parents reside al Tekaraka. MOTOR-CYCLIST’S GRAVE INJURIES.. Cl lIUSTC'HUROH, May 10. L. Grimwood. a young man resident at the corner of Innes Road and Rutland Street, fell from a motor-cycle at Leithfiold Beach, this afternoon, when the cycle struck a patch of loose sand. He suffered the fracture of both of his legs and his collarbone. Tie also suffered internal injuries. His condition is serious. Another Cyclist Killed MAORI MOTORIST DETAINED. WANGANUI. May 10. As the result of a collision with a motor-ear, driven by a Maori and containing a number of native’s from lhe Ratana Pa, Joseph Arthur Massey, of Wanganui East, received severe head injuries, from which he died almost immediately. Massey was cycling along No. 1 line with companions on Saturday afternoon, and the car which struck him was travelling in the same direction. The driver of the ear, who returned to the seene of the accident, was taken to the Police Station and detained. Football Field Tragedy TEAM FOUNDER’S COLLAPSE, AUCKLAND, May 10. In excitement which followed the win of the new Manukau senior team against Richmond jn the League match at Carlaw Park, yesterday, Mr. Albert £pwan, of Onehunga, founder of th team, died suddenly. Mr. Cowan had just entered the dressing room to convey his congratulations to the members of the team when he collapsed, A doctor was called, and he was given every attention, but when taken to the hospital by an ambulance, life was pronounced extinct. The players and patrons were distressed when the news was confirmed, and flags were lowered to half mast. Mr. Cowan was born at Port Chalmers.