STRANGE TRAGEDY

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1931, Page 3

STRANGE TRAGEDY

AFTER MOTOR ACCIDENT. (Jiu Tdeyrapk — Per Press Association) WELLINGTON. April 12. Rather puzzling features attended the death of a motorist in the city on .Saturday afternoon, -lervois Quay was almost deserted in stormy weather a 4 p.ni., when a passerby noticed a small motor car at rest across the footpath, which it had mounted before colliding with an electric power substation. The driver, with a cut on his head, was hanging over the trout right hand door, and ambulance men, called from a depot nearby, found from a brief examinatio that the man was dead. Th police were communicated with, and the man was taken to the morgue wlier elie was later identified as Joseph Nind. aged about 155 years, wiio lived at. “Ocean View,” The Ridgway, Morchildron. It is thought that Nind anu leaves a wife and two grown-up children. li ts thought that Nind must have had seme sort of a seizure while driving along tlfe road, and 10-t control of the ear. which crashed into tlu> sub-station. The windshield was broken and Nind was cut on the head, but although the cut went to the none there was no fracture, and hts injuries were not such as would cause death. No one, it seems, witnessed tlie accident. The police expect that a post mortem will reveal tlm.r Nind collapsed and died irom heart failure