FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED. Oamaru, May 29th. A. fatal motor smash occurred on the Main road, about two miles north of Oamaru, just after dusk this evening. Hugh Glass, licensee of’the Pembroke Hotel, in Otago Lakes district, accompanied by bis wife and young daughter, was coming into town by motor, via Lindis Pass. In the darkness the car apparently missed a narrow bridge over a small creek, and dropped, into a shallow depression, the car being capsized. The details of the acci< dent are meagre. Mrs Glass was killed, her neck being broken, and her four-year-old daughter apparently was suffocated by being held down under the oar. Both were dead when (he accident was discovered. Mr Glass,, whose people reside in Oamaru, is in the hospital seriously injured.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1984, 31 May 1919, Page 3
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131FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1984, 31 May 1919, Page 3
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