MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
TEN-YEAR SCHOOLBOY JUMPS OFF A TRAIN. SCALP FEARFULLY TORN. (Per Press issooiation.) Auckland, March 22. A ten-year-old schoolboy, when re-, turning to Paerata by the 12.50 train from Pukckohe, met with a serious accident. It appears that this train only stops, at Paerata when the guard is notified. When he saw that he was being carried past bis station, the boy jumped off the train, which was travelling very fast, with the result that he fell on his head, his scalp being fearfully torn about. The injured'lad, who had a miraculous escape, was picked up by a lady residing alongside the line, and after receiving medical' attention was conveyed to his home, where he is doing as well as can be expected.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 74, 23 March 1912, Page 4
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