FOUND ON RAILWAY
WOMAN PASSENGER KILLED (By T>leirapn.—press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday The body of a first-class railway passenger, Mrs J. M. Shelley, of Hawarden, was discovered on the permanent way near the Waltham railway crossing by the crossing keeper at 6.30 a.m. to-day. The woman w aw dead and must have been killed almost instantaneously. She had severe head injuries and suffered terrible arm wounds. The dead woman w’aa a pasaenge* on the early steamer express train fof\ % Lyttelton. No one saw the accident and the train went on without her disappearance being noticed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20721, 3 February 1939, Page 8
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