YOUNG WOMAN’S SHOCKING DEATH.
MUTILATED UNDER RAILWAY CARRIAGE (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, Last Night. Miss Margaret Elsie Coleman, aged 21, residing with her parents at AVadestown, was killed at 4.45 p.m. to-day when she fell between the carriages of a train at the Pctone railway station. The body was unrecognisably mutilated. Miss Coleman arrived at Petone by the 4.41 train from Wellington. She ‘was seen by Lawrence Noedl, a signalman, to leave the carriage she had occupied with the apparent intention of entering the one ahead from the platform. The train began to move off and Miss Coleman fell below the carriage she intended to enter. She was dragged 150 yards.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1938, Page 5
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