FALL FROM TRAIN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16762, 11 June 1920, Page 4

FALL FROM TRAIN.

DEATH OF SHIP’S STEWARD. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 10. An inquest respecting the death of .a chip's .steward. James Mallin ;23j. who Ml from a moving train at Penrose on Monday evening and subsequently died in hospital, was held before Mr. J. E. Wilson. S M., to-day.

Evidence was given that two Penrose residents were attracted by a cry near the railway lino at 8 o’clock on Monday evening, and they found two men. Mallin and Murdock M'Leotl, lying injured beside the line, Malliu being unconscious. Both were sent to hospital, where Malliu died next rooming M‘Lsod had a head wound and an arm wound, bui was not seriously hurt. M'Leotl, in his evidence, stated that he and Mallin were both ship’s stewards and lived at the same place at-Ore-, hun.g.x. They had been in town to gethcr on Monday and- -loft for One-, Ivuug.i shortly after 6 o’clock. They changed trains at Penrose and went inside the carriage, but went out oh the carriage platform just after the train started.

Witness said he was standing outside the door and his friend Mallin was loaning with his back to the platform rail singing find boating time with his hands. Witness then had a fivint recollection of falling off the platform through the platform gate. It was dark at the time, ho said, and ha did not notice whether or not the gate was open when they went out on the platform. When he came to he called out

In answer to the Coroner, M'Leod said that Mallin did mt have any drink in his company, hut between 5.15 and 6 p.m. he was in the Waverlcy Hotel with someone else. "When witness rejoined Mallin just after 6 p.m., Mallin appeared to him to bo quite sober. Witness could not .give any reason for going out of tho carrivg© to stand on the platform, and could not say how either he or Mallin fell off the platform. Ho thought it must have been caused by a lurch of the train. The coroner found that Mallin’s death was caused by falling from a moving train at Penrose, and that there was no evidence to show how he came to fail from the train.