FURTHER .PARTICULARS
AUCKLAND; March 13. Further particular^ regarding the train accident at Ohakune show that the victim was named Vera Dellow, aged 26 years, whose parents reside at Mount Eden. She went out on the platform when the train was slowing up. Constable Skinner, who was on the platform of the next carriage, saw a dark object fall alongside the carriage which bounded forward*. He got possession of the Body after the wheels of one carriage had passed over it. Death must have been instantaneous. Constable Skinner was struck on the back of the head by the moving carriage, but escaped serious A passenger states that- the station was practically in darkness when the train arrived, but was fully lighted ten minutes after the fatality.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 61, 13 March 1911, Page 5
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125FURTHER .PARTICULARS Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 61, 13 March 1911, Page 5
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