FATALITY AT RAILWAY STATION
MAN FALLS BETWEEN CARRIAGES'
(United Preßß Association.) WAIPAWA, This Day. Francis George Sharpin, aged 48, married, with two children, was killed at the railway station on Saturday night. Deceased, who was a resident of Waipukurau, was returning from the Hastings races. He alighted here, but apparently delayed resuming his seat till after the starting signal was given, and in attempting to board the moving train lie fell between the carriages. His body was shockingly mutilated.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 June 1926, Page 4
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