DREADFUL DEATH.
Dunedin, June 29. A woman named Ellen Adams, who has very frequently been before the police court for vagrancy, and who was a constant inmate of the gaol, was found dead on the railway line this forenoon within 200 or 300 yards of the main station. She was so mangled as to be quite unrecognisable, but a female friend identified her by her clothing. It is surmised that she was lying about the line during the night, and one of the late trains killed her. Traces of flesh and blood were found on one of the engines, but the driver and guard knew nothing of the accident, and the engine cleaner thought a sheep or dog had been run over. It was not till a little boy discovered the remains on the line, about 10 o’clock this morning, that anything was known of the occurrence. Tho husband of the deceased woman is at present under trial fur housebreaking.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 7222, 18 July 1884, Page 8
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