CAR FALLS INTO CREEK.
MAN AND DAUGHTER DROWNED. Wanganui, October 12. Wjhen his lights were dimmed to pass another car, Paul Fromont, aged 49, city foreman of works, tonight drove his car through the rails of a small bridge on the road leading out of the city known as Number Three Line. The car landed upside down in the. creek, and Fromont and his only daughter, Stella, aged 25, were drowned. A niece, Lettie Murphy, managed to free herself, and summoned assistance, but the other two were dead before the car could be removed. The bridge is very narrow. Fromont leaves nine sons.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3703, 13 October 1927, Page 2
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103CAR FALLS INTO CREEK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3703, 13 October 1927, Page 2
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