MAN KILLED IN TUNNEL.
TRAIN PASSES OVER BODY. CHRISTOHURCH ACCOUNTANT [by TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. . A man was killed in the Lyttelton tunnel by the 8.20 a.m. train Lyttelton to Christchurch. The engine-driver felt a bump, but could see nothing owing to the smoke. A gang went through the tunnel, and found the badly-mutilated and almost unrecognisable remains of .an elderly man. The body was later identified as that of Mr. George Harvey Parsons, accountant for the firm of Messrs. F. Cross and Sons, wine and spirit merchants. .St. Asaph Street. Parsons • was a married man, 60 years old, with one daughter. He had been with Cross and Sons for 10 years. He lived in Melbourne for somß years, and was at one time • alderman of the Melbourne City Council. V He is! stated to have been in good health yesterday. ■ -. : '■'■'.-.'■■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18389, 3 May 1923, Page 6
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