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AUCKLAND FATALITIES. (BY TELEGRAPH IpiIESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, March 12. Mrs. Catherine Bogue, a resident of New, Lynn, while talking to a. friend at Portage Roqd railway crossing, was struck by a train and killed instantly. Her view of the line was obstructed by trees. The engine-driver is said to have- sounded a warning whistle when approaching the crossing. Allan Gillespie, aged 53, a storekeeper at Campbell’s Bay, Takapuna, was capsized in a- dinghy- while fishing at 8 o’clock last night, and is believed to have been drowned. The police unsuccessfully dragged for two horn’s for ; body. CONFIDENCE TRICK ALLEGED, PALMERSTON N., March 12. At the Police Court, Robert Howden, a well-dressed young man, was charged with robbing Stanley Gibson of £73. The police alleged that Gibson was robbed by means of a confidence trick on the part of three men, two of whom have escaped. The accused reserved his defence, and was committed for trial.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 March 1925, Page 5
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