The Bucks Standard, Saturday, January 30th 1892

FATAL FALL FROM A TRAIN.- Early on Wednesday morning, Jan 27, as the up auxiliary mail was nearing Castlethorpe, some of the passengers thought they saw a man fall from the train. The train perused on its course to Blisworth, where the matter was reported to the night station-master there, who was .... carriage to search the line. The Castlethorpe officials were also advised by wire, and the station-master (Mr. Day) was called up, and with a search party went down the line. Within a few hundred yards from the station a poor fellow was observed on the line with both his legs cut off, evidently having fallen from the train and been run over by a following one. The special engine and carriage conveyed the poor fellow to Northampton, where he was removed to the Infirmary. When found he was sensible, but in a very weak condition, and he has since died at the Infirmary.-The name and address of the deceased is said to be John Cockerill, 64, Blair-street, Poplar, London, and he is probably 40 or 50 years of age. A seaman’s authority to claim wages, dated Jan. 26, at Liverpool, was found on the body. An inquest was held at the Infirmary on Thursday morning, before C. C. Becke, Esq., Borough Coroner, the jury, owing to the meagre evidence produced, returning an open verdict to the effect that deceased, died falling out of a train, but how he fell out there was no evidence to show.