CRUSHED BY TRAIN
Man Killed at Otahuhu Station By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, June 16. Run over by the wheels of a carriage of a suburban passenger train at the Otahuhu station early this morning, Richard Edelsten, aged 54, an unemployed motor painter, of Otahuhu, was killed instantaneously. Mr Edelsten had left his home shortly before 8 a.m. to travel to Auckland by train. As the 8.18 train wa< movin'slowly from the island platform Mt Edelsten was seen running across the lines of the eastern sidings toward ti;>rear carriage. On feeling unusual bumps the guard signalled the train to stop, and the body of Mr Edelsten was found on the line. The wheels of i.he lust carriage had passed over his chest Mr Edelsten, who leaves a wife and two children, was a returned soldier, having served with the Australu-.n forces during the Great War.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 8
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