Leap from a Railway Car.
Hobabt, Jan. 22. A sensational leap from a mail train running between Hobart and Launcesfcon waa made by a young girl named Brown, who was travelling in a compartment with Mr Davidson, a member of a firm of engineers. The girl fell aslnep, and Davidson alleges he took a nip of a cough mixture containing peppermint and aniseed. The girl awoke and believed the smell to be that of chloroform, and tried to attract the attention of the passengers in the next compartment. Failing to do so, she then 1 dropped from the window. The girl was found uninjured, except for a few bruises. Davidson was taken into custody, but it is generally believed the girl was laboring under an hallucination.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7541, 23 January 1896, Page 2
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