Killed in Crash on Great North Road

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 13

Killed in Crash on Great North Road

MOTOR-CYCLIST’S DEATH

MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY • A motorist driving along the Great North Road near Waiwai just after dark last evening found the road blocked. He got out and discovered the wreckage of a motor-cycle and two unconscious men lying beside it, one of whom was so badly hurt that he died within an hour of admission to the Auckland Hospital. JgXACTLY liow the accident happened is a mystery so far, as the other man has not yet been able to tell a coherent story. It appears, however, that Henry Ephraim Morrow, aged 56, was motor-cycling home when he collided witlv a pedestrian, Robert Spiers. The accident occurred between 5.30 and six o’clock, just as dusk was making it difficult to follow the road.

Morrow was flung on to the road in endeavouring to avoid the collision and received a fractured skull, so that he died shortly after eight o’clock. Spiers was unconscious when found, but he was only suffering from shock and slight concussion.

Mr. Morrow was a married man with four children, a girl and three small boys. He was employed as a wharf foreman in Auckland and lived at 66 Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn. Mr. Speirs lives at 30 Cooper Street, Grey Lynn. An inquest was opened this morning before the coroner. Evidence of identification was taken and Harriett Morrow, wife of the dead man, said that her husband had ridden a motorcycle for the last three years. The inquest was then adjourned sine die.