SUICIDE ON LOCOMOTIVE
MAN LEAPS INTO FIREBOX.
CLOTHES FIRST REMOVED.
A. and N.Z. BRISBANE. Nov. 6. A sensational suicide is reported at Bowen. A man, named Charles Gower, in a naked condition entered the railway vards and climbed info a locomotive, "eluding the fireman. He opened the firebox and dived into the furnace. Attempts to drag him out failed and before the fire was extinguished theibody was a charred mass. His clothes were subsequently found in the yard. The men was presumably demented.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18550, 7 November 1923, Page 9
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83SUICIDE ON LOCOMOTIVE New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18550, 7 November 1923, Page 9
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