Run Over by Train
UNEMPLOYED MAN’S DEATH Per Press Association AUCKLAND, Last Night. Run over by the wheels of the carriage of a suburban passenger train at Otahuhu station early this morning, Richard Ldelsten, aged 54, an unemployed motor painter, of Otahuhu, was killed instantaneously. Ldelsten had left his home rhortly before 8 a.m. to travel to Auckland by train. As the B.IS train was moving slowly from the island platform Edelstcn was seen running across the lines of the eastern sidings toward the rear carriage. On feeling unusual bumps the guard signalled the train to stop and the body of Edelsten was found on the line. The wheels of the last carriage had passed over his chest. Ldelsten, who leaves a wife and two children, was a returned soldier, having served with the Australian forces during the Great War.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 141, 17 June 1936, Page 6
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