MOTOR CAR TRAGEDY
MAN KILLED OUTRIGHT - DRIVER REMANDED ON GRAVE CHARGES. AUCKLAND, June 9. A--midnight motor smash in Kingsland caused the death of one man and serious injuries to his wife and two other men. The man killed was Harry Merritt Parker, aged 35, manager, and the injured are Mrs Parker and Clifford and N. Cooper. All were taken to hospital with head wounds, and their condition is fairly serious. The driver. Lamson Smith, escaped injury, and a sixth person received minor injuries. The car failed to take a turn, and crashed into a telegraph post," which was knocked out of alignment and cracked clean through. The car was wrecked. Parker and his wife came to Auckland recently from Sydney to open a branch of the firm of which Smith is the Sydney representative. Following the fatal smash, Cyrus Lamson Smith, aged 57, a native of the United States, appeared in the Police Court charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car, driving without a license, and causing the death of Parker by negligent driving. He was reminded to appear on June 16, bail being fixed at £5OO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 6
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189MOTOR CAR TRAGEDY Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 6
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