ON WEDDING EVE.
MAN KILLED BY TRAIN.
IN UNDERGROUND RAILWAY. (From a Correspondent.) SYDNEY, February 20. On the eve of his wedding day, Ronald Cousins, 25, of Stony Creek, near Bathurst, was killed in the underground railway near \\ ynvard Station Ibis evening. His head was severed by a fast-moving electric train. Shortly before 5 o’clock, William Jack, the driver of a train bound from Parramatta to Hornsby reported to a porter at Wynvard Station that lie bad struck an object a short distance down the tunnel. When Hie train moved oIT, the porter investigated and .?0 yards from Hie station found the body of a man crushed between the rails. His head had been severed and it was discovered several yards away in a water drain. It was later ascertained Unit Cousins arrived from Bathurst yesterday and was to have left this morning for Narrandera where liis wedding was lo have taken place to-morrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 3
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