ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
(Per Press Association.) A seaman named James Morrison Spencer, a native of Glasgow, aged 35, believed to be a resident of Victoria street. Auckland, was knocked down and killed by a train at the Breakwater road railway Crossing shortly before four o’clock yesterday afternoon. Spence, who had signed on as a seaman on the steamer Chenistpn earlier in the day, was walking with a companion from King’s wharf towards Customs street. He was struck by a rake of carriages which were being shunted, it is stated that the companion of deceased and a shunter on the train both shouted warnings to him, but he did not appear to hear and walked on to the line immediately in front of the first carriage. Death was instantaneous.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 4
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128ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 4
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