TWO MEN KILLED

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 10

TWO MEN KILLED

ACCIDENT NEAR WANGANUI CAR GOES OVER BANK Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, February 15. Two men were killed about 6 o’clock to-night, when a motorcar, apparently skidding in loose metal on the Marangai Hill, left the road and somersaulted down a steep slope, coming to rest a hundred yards from the road. ,I'he victims are: DAVID HECTOR McKENZIE, single, aged 27, a traveller for Messrs. Levin and Co., Wellington. Another thought to be WILLIAM EARLE, aged 30, a storekeeper, of Khandallah, where he is in business with his brother. A third man, William Emery de Malmanche, a grocer, of Levin, who joined the others at that town, escaped death miraculously, and was taken to the Wanganui Hospital, where it was reported late to-night that his condition was not serious, "consisting of shoulder injuries. The driver is thought to have been McKenzie, who used the car in his business. The faces of the deceased were terribly mutilated, and McKenzie was onlv identified bv papers in his pocket. The car was wrecked beyond repair. The accident occurred five miles from Wanganui, on the main road. Mr. McKenzie is believed to be a son of Mr. D. McKenzie, Mayor of Petone.