KILLED BY TABLET FORK.
RAILWAY STATION MISHAP. ACCIDENTAL DEATH VERDICT:' fa* ' TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION:] ,PALMERSTON'<NORTH. Friday. ' An adjourned inquiry into the circumstances 1 surrounding the death of Robert Grant, -victim of the railway fatality at Halcombe on January 14, was held by the' coroner to-day. Deceased; was an immigrant, : who had arrived in ihe, Dominict only a few days previously. He was; , a passenger on a Main Trunk express,, when fie sustained fatal injuries as the train ' was passing through the Halcombe station owing to the failure of a. tablet * apparatus to swing round. Deceased was struck on the head. ; L i The opinion war. expressed by witnesses, that' deces-sed and a companion, who was slightly injured, must have been leaning out of the window, which th<9 companion denied. Other witnesses stated that they saw ; them leaning out; otherwise the tablet apparatus would not have struck deceased. : , N
i The coroner Returned a verdict that deceased died from injuries received through being accidentally struck by the iron fork -of a tablet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18629, 9 February 1924, Page 11
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