FATAL MOTOR SMASH
WOMAN AND UTILE DAUGHTER KILLED HUSBAND SERIOUSLY INJURED By Tdetrraoh-Press Association. Oamaru, May 29.' . A fatal motor smash occurred on the main road, about two miles north of .Oamaru, just fitter dusk this eveniug. Air. Hugh Glass, licensee of tho Pera.broko Hotel,.in the Otago Lakes district, accompanied, by his wife and, young daughter, was coining into town by a motor, via Lindis Pa6s, and in tlu darkness .the car apparently missed a narrow bridge over a shallow creek, dropped' into, a shallow depression, and capsized., Details of the accident are meagre. Mrs. Glass was killed, her neck being broken, and her four-year-old daughter was apparently suffocated by being held down Under the oar. Both were dead when the accident was.discovered. Mr. Glass, whoso people ■ reside in Oamaru, is in hospital, seriously injured.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 210, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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135FATAL MOTOR SMASH Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 210, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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