I have not found anything about Miss Margaret Joyce Thomas except the reports of her fatal accident. But it is notable that her epitaph shows the wrong date for her death. It is not the first mistake of its kind I have seen
YOUNG WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN
UNDER CARRIAGE AT TIMARU.
TIMARU, This Day. Miss Joyce Thomas, aged 18, who resided with her parents, Mr and Mrs Edwin Thomas, at No. 5 South Street, while attempting to leave a special excursion train from Dunedin, which arrived at midnight last night, fell under a carriage and was killed instantly. The upper part of her body was badly crushed. -Ashburton Guardian, 28/3/1938.
DEATH OF WOMAN AT TIMARU
ALIGHTED FROM TRAIN IN MOTION
“This is an unfortunate tragedy, and is another illustration of the danger to passengers endeavouring to alight from a carriage while the train is in motion," said the Coroner (Mr H. Morgan), in giving his verdict at the inquest to-day on Margaret Joyce Thomas, a young girl who was killed when alighting from the returning Timaru-Dunedin excursion train on Sunday, March 27. “The evidence seems clear that deceased must have stepped off before the train stopped, and in doing so lost her balance, and fell under the carriage, the wheel of which caused such injuries as would bring about instant death,” said Mr Morgan. Death was due to injuries so received. -Press, 14/4/1938.
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