ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
BOARDING MOVING TRAIN GIRL ACCIDENTALLY KILLED (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 16. At the inquest on Nancy Watson a verdict was returned that she was accidentally killed by being crushed under the wheels of a moving train which she was attempting to board at the Petone Railway Station. The coroner remarked that attempting to board moving trains was a dangerous habit. LOWBURN BRIDGE TRAGEDY INQUEST ON SECOND VICTIM (Special to Daily Times) CROMWELL, Sept. 16. The adjourned inquest on the second victim of the Lowburn bridge drowning fatality, Ronald M'Elhenny, was Held to-day. Similar evidence was given to that tendered in the previous inquest on L. B. Liddicoat, and the coroner returned a verdict of accidental drowning. LEFT ARM FRACTURED Doreen Todd, a young girl, who resides with her parents at 7 Richardson street. St. Kilda. was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 6 p.m. yesterday suffering from a fracture of the left arm. She received her in;iury , while playing at school.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23299, 17 September 1937, Page 10
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