RAILWAY FATALITY.
KILLED THROUGH JUMPING FROM A TRAIN.
[Press Association.]
DUNEDIN,- Dec. 23
A fatal accident occurred on the railway at Mussel Bay near Port Chalmers, to-night. A boy named Alex "McPherson, son of John McPherson, carpenter, Port Chalmers, was killed. The boy was a passenger by train from Dunedin and .jumped off before it stopped. He fell and was drawn beneath a carriage and killed instantly. The deceased only recently started work in Dunedin.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 5
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75RAILWAY FATALITY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 5
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