FATAL LEAP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)

FATAL LEAP

BOY UNDER TRAIN. A sixtecn-year-old youth, Harc’d Iverson, who, in charge of an attendant, was on his way by train from Newcastle to the Industrial School at Gosford, New South Wales, recently, leapt out of a carriage window soon after the train had pulled out of Hamilton station. He rolled back on to the line and was killed instantaneously. According to the story given by the. ambulance, the boy, just before the train stopped at Hamilton, the second station after Newcastle, had walked across to the window, stating that his mother might be on the platform to say good-bye to him. No one greeted the. youth at Hamilton, however. When* the train pulled out he. still kept his position near the window. Suddenly, just before the train passed under the high level bridge, the youth, placing both hands on the window sash, raised himself slightly off the floor of the carriage, and. without a moment’s warning, shot through the window on to the line. Unfortunately Iverson fell on to the sloping embankment. and, rolling back on to the line, was cut to pieces by the train.