TRAIN-WRECKER AT LARGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12285, 11 July 1914, Page 4

TRAIN-WRECKER AT LARGE.

(Per Press Association.) Palmerston North. July 9. Recently it was reported that an attempt had been made to wreck the Auckland night express at Bunnythorpe, by the placing of a rail over the line. Investigation being made, : fc was thought that it was an act on the , part- of some thoughtless children. On Wednesday night, however, what- appears to have been another deliberate attempt, to wreck the midnight express "from Wellington took place on the Palmerston side of Awapuni railway station. It appears i'hat a beam, some six inches thick ami twelve feet long, ■resembling those used in the construction of cattle-stops, was placed across the rails. Tile beam was struck by the engine, which bears the distinct marks of the impact. The present occurrence, following so shortly after the Bunnythorpe episode, gives rise for suspicion that some dangerous person is at large.