SHOCKING TRAGEDY
' LORRY “RUNS AMOK. ’ TWO PERSONS KILLED. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) . SYDNEY, August 11. ■ A motor lorry travelling at a high speed in King Street, Newton, got out of hand, mounted a footpath and cut a boy almost to pieces, killed an old man, and injured a baby girl. Continuing its course the lorry smashed the plate glass windows of.several small shops till at the end of forty yards of a destructive career it stopped against a newsagent window. The driver and two men with him were seriously injured.
The killed are: Michael Scully, aged 60, 'of St. Andrew’s. Robert Haddow, aged 10, of Newtown.
The injured are: Edna Johnston, aged 4, severe head injuries. . Percy Spittleiiouse, the lorry driver of St. Peters, fractured skull. John Parker and Henry Ludwell, of Newtown, both head injuries. The whole tragedy was enacted in a few moments.
People had hardly grasped what had happened before the- incident ended. The boy was crushed against one of the shop fronts and dismembered and shockingly mutilated.
Scully’s injuries were> nearly as>bad and death was instantaneous.
The police seized beer bottles found in the lorry and several broken ones on the pavement, the contents mingling with the blood of the dead.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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