"VERY ODD CASE."
MAN DEAD ON RAILWAY.
THEORY OF JUMP FROM BRIDGE. SUICIDE VERDICT RETURNED. ' "It is a very odd case," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., coroner, in returning a verdict of suicide at the inquest yesterday on Hayward Nathan Newdiek, who was found dead near the Arnold Street railway bridge at Mount Eden, on the morning of February 27. Deceased, who was single, resided with his aged mother in Auckland. Alexander Henderson, a brother-in-law, said deceased, who was a labourer, <was worried because he was out of work. He was not in robust health.
It was stated close inquiries had been made by the police regarding the death. No blood had been found on any one of the trains which passed under the bridge. Officials had been mystified how deceased had met his death.
"My theory is that deceased threw himself over the bridge on to a goods train as it passed underneath," said Sergeant Flannagan. "That would account for the absence of marks on other passing trains."
With this view the coroner, Mr. F K. Hunt, S.M., concurred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 13
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