KILLED IN A TUNNEL.
DEATH OF A CHINESE. [by telegraph.--own correspondent. ] "WELLINGTON. Tuesday. An inquest was held to-day into the death of Ngan Lie, a Chinese gardener, aged 56 years, of Otaki, who was admitted to the Wellington Hospital suffering from a fractured skull and shook, and who died without recovering consciousness. Evidence was given that the deceased was struck by a goods train in a tunnel rear Faekakariki on Friday when walking on the lino in tho early morning. The coroner said deceased was an old man and evidently not well acquainted with the different trains and their running. He had apparently left the Wellington train at Paekakariki and remained there until early in the morning, when he had set out in what he thought was the direction of Otaki, No blame was attachable to the driver who had taken all steps to stop the train.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19469, 27 October 1926, Page 16
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