A TRAIN WRECKER.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 932, 10 January 1890, Page 13

A TRAIN WRECKER.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Invercargill, January 6. On Saturday morning, when the Clinton tiain, due at Invercargill at 10.55 a.m., reached the Mill-road Station, just as the engine was about to pull up before going on to the siding, itjpassed over a large fang bolt; meanwhile the guard had gone up to move the points to let the train into the siding, when he found two iron bolts known as “ dogs ’’ and several stones of a considerable size placed on the rails at both ends of the siding. Detective Madden went out by the 4.15 p.m. train, and when going to examine the place where the obstructions were found in the morning discovered three stones planted in a oheck rail, two iron dogs, and a piece of an iron bolt and a large stone on the main line. After removing these, and when the trains had gone past, the detective kept watch until 9 p.m., but nothing occurred. He again went by the 6.40 a.m. train to day, and had not waited long before he noticed a boy named Brown, living near by, placing stones on the line. The boy was promptly secured. An investigation as to whether he had an accomplice will be made.