WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 19 October 1926, Page 3

WOMAN’S TRAGIC DEATH.

TWICE FALLS OFF THE TRAIN. Napier, Last Night. Emily Catherine Benson, aged 28, wife of Joseph Benson, of Napier, was fatally injured through falling from a train goinr* out from Napier shortly after five o’clock this evening. Deceased was sitting on the stdp of a carriage, and fell off as the train was going over the Hastings St. crossing at slow speed. The guard stopped the train and picked Mrs Benson up, who though dazed, said she was alright. The guard (lion made her comfortable in a first-class carriage next to the van, and the train resumed its journey. However, the train had proceeded only two or three hundred yards when a lady passenger rushed to tell! the guard that Mrs Benson had gone down between two carriages. The train was again stopped, and deceased was picked up frightfully injured. She was taken back to the station by the train, and on arrival there was dead. Deceased, who had a baby one month old, left home about 4.30 p.m., telling the nurse that she intended to meet her husband, who had gone into town about half an hour previously. Deceased did not meet her husband, and instead boarded the 5.10 p.m. train for Hastings, for which action there is at, present no explanation. Deceased’s maiden name was Gill, and she came from Auckland.