ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT. DEATH OF “THE CALCULATING BOY.” Per .Press Association. Westport, September 7. Dudley Wyatt, picture show proprietor, was killed instantaneously at Burnetts Face, near Denniston, at 11.5 a.m. to-day. Wyatt was driving a party who had attended a send-off to recruits in a motor-car. On returning to Denniston, Wyatt was manoeuvring the car at a nasty turn at the start, when it went over the side and capsized. Wyatt and Alexander Young were pinned under the car. Young was got out suffering with an injured shoulder, but Wyatt’s neck was broken. The other occupants, Mogson and Fairley, got clear. Wyatt, who was known all over Australasia and India, was the original “Calculating Boy.” He bad competed in the Sydney “Thousand” cycle race. His only remaining relative is bis mother who resides at Denniston.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 7 September 1916, Page 6
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137ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 7 September 1916, Page 6
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