Biography

The deceased was an employee on a Public Works Department railway construction gang. On Thursday 11 February 1932, an inquest was held at the Wiluna Courthouse before the Acting Coroner, Mr J. E. Coombes to investigate the circumstances of the death of Mr Adrian, whose badly mutilated body was found on the railway line about 33 miles west of Wiluna on 6 February. Evidence given by several witnesses disclosed that the deceased was riding on a train between Meekatharra and Paroo and that he had left the engine to return to the brake van. Apparently, while walking along the footboards of the train, he fell between two trucks and was run over, his body being subsequently found some distance back along the line. The Acting Coroner returned a verdict that Arthur Adrian came by his death by being run over by a train near Paroo.