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Henry Maurice John Petty-Fitzmaurice

Age: 19

Sex: male

Date: 12 Sep 1933

Place: Regents Park Station, London

Henry Maurice John Petty-Fitzmaurice, the Earl Of Kerry, died after falling in front of a tube train.

The driver of the tube train said that he saw a man raise his arms above his head and dive in front of the train as it entered the station. He said, 'I saw a man standing on the platform near the edge. He dived in front of my train as I entered the station, He put his hands above his head and dived in front of the train'. It was noted that the train driver was the only person that had seen Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice go in front of the train. He had also said that by the time he saw it, it was impossible for him to have pulled up. The driver said that immediately that he saw the man he had applied the vacuum breaks but said that by the time that the train had stopped two carriages had passed over him.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Northern Whig - Friday 15 September 1933

see Western Gazette - Friday 15 September 1933

see The Scotsman - Wednesday 13 September 1933

see Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 14 September 1933, p1 and 6

see Lincolnshire Echo - Wednesday 13 September 1933

see Derry Journal - Wednesday 13 September 1933

see Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 20 September 1933

see Unsolved 1933