WELLINGTON RAILWAY FATALITY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13726, 15 August 1908, Page 5

WELLINGTON RAILWAY FATALITY.

A WELLINGTON, August 14. The .man, knocked down and killed by a tram at Wellington last night, pro/es . to have been Charles Davis, a fisherman, of -Makara. At the incpiest to- „ day the driver of the engine, James Barr, said that just before the accident the fireman, William O'Brien, said to him: "Stop; Jim; there's a man crossing in front of the engine.'* Steam was shirt off, and the brakes were applied. Np bump was noticed, but witness felt that something was dragging. The train was travelling at the usual pace, 15 or twenty miles an hour. It was pulled up within 100 yds. Daniel Lane, a driver, identified deceased, who, he believed, was a wjdower with, no children. The deceased had been drinking heavily, and was intoxicated between 4 and 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The jury found a verdict that death waa accidental, . no blame, being attachable to the engine-driver or fireman.