A SHOCKING DEATH.
killed on the Railway.
By Telegraph — 'Press Association} Oamaru, Last Night,
Early this morning the police were informed that a man had been found on the railway line at Totara Station, literally cut to pieces. A casual acquaintance of deceased stated that he was a native of Rockhampton, Queensland, and was named Thomas Walsh. He had been working in the district as a farm labourer, and 'left .yesterday to take work at potato digging. - He arrived, at his destination safely, but how he got on to the rails subsequently is a mystery. Several trains must have passed over the body.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8098, 24 March 1905, Page 6
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103A SHOCKING DEATH. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8098, 24 March 1905, Page 6
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