SHOCKING FATALITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1924, Page 2

SHOCKING FATALITY.

TEL ICC! HA I’ll M ESSENGER. KILLED. GREYMOUTII, October 2.1. A shocking accident occurred at ten minutes past one yesterday afternoon at the intersection of Murray and Alexander Streets by which a telegraph messenger, George Frederick Gray, aged fourteen years and four months, who lived with his parents in Thompson Street, met his death under distressing circumstances. The unfortunate boy, who only commenced work in the Telegraph Department the previous day, was taking a telegram to a residence in Alexander Street, on his way home to lunch, lie was cycling along Murray, Street, at the junction of that thoroughfare with Alexander Street, when he came into collision with a motor lorry driven by Mr Charles Uugg. So suddenly did the collision occur that .Mr liugg (although he was driving slowly at the time) had no chance of stopping his machine, and the lorry passed over the unfortunate bov, inflicting terrible injuries to the head, and other parts of the body. Death, of course, was instanteous.

Several eye-witnesses state that Mr lliigg sounded his born a number of times before lie reached the intersection of the street. The boy was looking straight in front of him, and they cannot understand how it was that he did not see or even hear the vehicle approaching. When the motor lorry was crossing the street intersection, the unfortunate lad seemed to lose his nerve and literally fell under the wheels of the vehicle.

Dr .1. F. C. Moore, Medical Superintendent of the Grey Hospital, was summoned immediately, and Dr McKay who was passing at the time, was also soon upon the scene. Both pronounced life, extinct, and the body was conveyed to the morgue, where an inquest will be held at 11 a.in. to-mor-row.