A FATAL FALL
CONDUCTOR’S DEATH INQUEST HELD AT AUCKLAND. [ Per Pre®B Association. ] AUCKLAND, Feb. 19. An inquest touching the death of James M. Slater, the tramway conductor who met with a tragic death in Anzac Avenue on the evening of February 11, was concluded by the coroner, Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., this morning. The evidence of the motorman was that when he stopped the car at a usual stopping place he found deceased missing, and a man later reported that the conductor was lying on the road further back. Slater was unconscious and died before admission to hospital. No one saw the conductor fall from the car. A verdict of accidental death was returned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 6
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115A FATAL FALL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19772, 21 February 1927, Page 6
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