FATAL MOTOR SMASH
CAR-CAPSIZES AND KILLS MOTHER ASD DAUGHTER.
Press Association. OAMARU, May 20.
A fatal motor smash occurred \On the Main read, about two. miles north of Oaniaru, just after dusk this evening. Hugh Glass, licensee of the Pembroke Hotel, in Otago Lakes district, accompanied by his wife and young daughter, was coming into town by motor, via Lindis Pass. In the darkness the tar apparently missed a narrow bridgo over a shallow cveek and dropped into a shallow depression, the car being capsized. The details of the accident aro meagre. . Mrs Glass was killed, her neck being broken, and her four-year-old daughter apparently was suffooated by being held down under the car. Both were dead when the accident was. discovered. Mr Glass, whose' people- reside in Oaniaru, is in the hospital seriously injured. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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135FATAL MOTOR SMASH New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 5
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