KILLED BY TRAIN IN TUNNEL
THE BODY BADLY MUTILATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. The body of a man named William' Carter, butcher of Balclutha, was found this morning in a- tunnel on the Tort Chalmers line on the Dunedin side of Sawyers Bay. At Sawyers Bay blood was noticed on the wheels of the , car* riagcs and on going back to investigate the guard found the body, badly mutilated, in a tunnel. He was a married man with five children. He had a broth*, er living at Sawyers Bay. An inquest was opened to-night by Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., coroner. Evidence was given by a passenger on the train that he last saw Carter standing on the carriage platform between the St. Leonard’s station and the tunnel, but on the train emerging from the tunnel Carter was not to be seen. Going through the tunnel he noticed a bump, and on arriving at Sawyers Bay he notified the guard. The train was backed to tire tunnel, where the body was picked up and conveyed to Chalmers.
Carter was well-known in Balclutha, where he was in business for many years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1930, Page 8
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