MOTOR-CAR DISASTER
VEHICLE FALLS INTO A RTYER. TYVO MEN DROWNED.
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(Received ta. 1, 0.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept, 30. A tragedy is r'eported from Bourke. A motor-car containing three men went over an embankment into the river. Two of the oceupants, named \Y. Jones and T. Curtis, were drowned. Details disclose that Jones and Curtis went for a ride with Richard Luseombe, an hotel-keeper of Bourke. They were returning home wlien the driver mistook the road and took a turriin,g leading to the river. Before the mistake was discovered the car fcll twenty feet over an ernbankment iilto the river. As it fell the vehicle turned over, pinning the occfipantst beneath it in shallow water. Luseombe extricated himself ancl made his way to the noa rest farm in a delirious state-. He could not give a coherent story of the bappening
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Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1926, Page 5
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