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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 322, 10 January 1907, Page 6

A fight with a madman in the cab of an engine travelling at full speed is an experience not often encountered h.Y the railway men of Scotland, feuch an allray however, has just occurred between Airdrie and Glasgow. While a train was drawn up waiting for a signal a man crept unseen put of one of the carriages, and when the driver s attention was otherwise engaged he managed to leap on the . engine. The man had managed to gi asp the starting lever when the driver and fireman noticed the intruder and then followed a frantic struggle for the possession of the throttle valve. The engine was started beside the railway men’s efforts. and it was only after a fierce combat that the madman was overcome, the train brought to a standstill, and the inmate handed over to the police. Ten persons out of twelve, perhaps believe that the leaves of trees turn yellow, rod, or purple, or biown, under the action of the frost ; but frost has nothing to do with the change. As a matter of fact, it is merely the ripening of the leaves, which are green in spring and summer, because they have in their cells a substance called chlorophyll, made green by the action of the sunlight. Towards the end of summer, the chlorophyll begins to decay, and the leaves change colour, as the greenproducing substance is no longer present. 1498