STRUCK BY TRAIN
YOUTH KILLED By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, January 27 Carrying a milk can and wheeling a bicycle on a short cut over the railway a quarter of a mile from the Gleneden station, Claude Hack (17), son of Mr William Hack, was struck by a mixed train at 7 o'clock this morning and killed instantly. The body, badly mutilated, was carried over 50 feet. The police and a doctor were summoned and the body was brought to the city. It is understood that a whistle blew before the accident.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20327, 28 January 1936, Page 12
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