CAUGHT IN A COW-CATCHER.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13167, 25 July 1911, Page 3

CAUGHT IN A COW-CATCHER.

[Press Association—Copyright.]

Hastings, July 24. As the Napier train was leaving Hastings at 11 o'clock on Saturday evening, while passing St Aubyn street crossing, the fireman noticed a man lying on the road near the line. The train was pulled up and a search revealed the body of a man, who evidently had been caught by the cowcatcher and had sustained injuries that proved immediately fatal. TJie name of the man was Charles William Timms, aged 39, and singlo. Later. At the inquest a verdict was returned that at the time of the accident Timms was lying close alongside the railway track under the influence oi liquor and that no blame was attachable to any of the railway officials. By a strange coincidence the first man to reach the body after the accident was deceased's brother, who expected to pick up a stranger.