A SAD AFFAIR.
BOY DIES TO SAVE A CHILD, < t i By Telegraph.—Press Attociition Wanganui, Last Night. Douglas Coomber, aged 10 yeari, pnlT son of a widow, was killed' at lugettre street railway crossing this afternoon, while returning from school. The child went to save a little girl in, the roadway from the danger of a passing bone and * cart, and in doing so stepped on io the railway crossing, and was run ovit by a passing train. , '
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1917, Page 4
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78A SAD AFFAIR. Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1917, Page 4
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