OCCIDENTS & FATALITIES
LYTTELTON TUNNEL FATALITY. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. A man was killed in the Lyttelton tunnel by the 8.20 train from Lyttelton to Christchurch. The engine driver felt a bump but could see nothing in the smoke. A gang went through the tunnel and found badly mutilated and almost unrecognisable the remains of an elderly man supposed to be those of Mr G. H. Parsons, public accountant of Christchurch. It is not known whether he fell off the train or walked into the tunnel. The man killed by the train has been identified as George Harvey Parsons, accountant for the firm of F. Cross and Sons., wine and spirit merchants, St. Asaph street. Parsons was a married man, 60 years old, with one daughter. He has been with Cross and Sons, for 10 years. He lived in Melbourne for some years and was at one time an aiderman of the Melbourne City Council. He is stated to have been in good health yesterday. UNEMPLOYED’S SUICIDE. WELLINGTON, May 2. Charles Wilcox, a married man, residing at Kelburn, committed suicide to-day by taking poison. Deceased has been out of employment for some time.
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Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 6
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