WINGATUI FATALITY
VICTIM'S IDENTITY SETTLED. DUNEDIN, September, 2. The adjourned inquest, concerning the death of a man whose name was supposed to be Angus Shaw, and whoso body was found on tho railway lino at Wingatui over a. week_ ago, concluded to-dav. ; The police • evidence established »tno fact beyond- doiibt that his name ia-as »tntod, that ho was a returned soldier and had' relatives in Australia, and that he had recently been employed ■as a groom at Bangiora,'
The verdict. was that ■ the cau6e of death was dislocation of. the neck, sustained through-deceased falling be-! noath a railway, train whilst it was in motion.—Press Association.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10685, 3 September 1920, Page 8
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