WOMAN'S BODY ON LINE
PASSENGER FOR LYTTELTON ACCIDENT NOT WITNESSED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Friday The body of a first-class railway passenger, Mrs. J. M. Shelley, of Ha warden, was discovered on the permanent way near Waltham railway crossing by the crossing keeper at 6.30 a.m. to-day. The woman was dead and must have been killed almost instantaneously. She was a passenger on the early steamer express train for Lyttelton. No one saw the accident and the train went on without her disappearance being noticed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 16
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86WOMAN'S BODY ON LINE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 16
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