WOMAN’S LEAP FROM BRIDGE INTO MOVING TRAIN
leaping froni a railway footbridge at Keswick road. Putney. Miss Effle Sampson, aged 41 years, crashed into the drivers cabin of a passing train. The driver went on to East Putney station, and Miss Sampson was taken to a nursing home, hut died from shock. The driver, Henry Mather, at an inquest, said that on leaving East Putney tunnel he saw a pair of hands and a heM rise over the parapet of the footbridge, and the next moment a woman’s body came oyer. He heard a crash on hie door, and the body of the woman layon the floor in front of him. Uvidenca that Miss Sampson was neurasthemo having been given, a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind" was recorded.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 14
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130WOMAN’S LEAP FROM BRIDGE INTO MOVING TRAIN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 14
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