TEN HOURS UNKNOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 739, 12 August 1929, Page 1

TEN HOURS UNKNOWN

VICTIM OF QUEEN STREET ACCIDENT

FELLOW BOARDER ON TRAM

The victim of the distressing tram accident in Queen Street was not identified at the Auckland Hospital until nearly 10 o’clock on Saturday evening—lo hours after the accident happened. She is Mrs. Beamard, a visitor from England, who was staying at the Glenosmond Private Hotel, 25 Wynyard Street.

Curiously enough a boarder from the same hotel was going home for lunch on the same tram which knocked Mrs. Beamard down, but he did not know this until late on Saturday night. Mrs. Beamard arrived from England some months ago and went on to various parts of New Zealand. For the last 10 weeks she had been staying at Rotorua and arrived in Auckland last Monday. She has a sister, Mrs. Jones, of Church Street, Palmerston North, with whom the police have communicated.

No one at the hotel worried very much when Mrs. Beamard did not return for lunch as it was thought that she might have stayed in the city. When she did not return for dinner, Mrs. Ingram, proprietress of Glenosmond, thought that something might have happened to her guest. After reading the account of the accident in the evening papers she asked two of her boarders to go to the hospital. This they did and returned to the house convinced that the injured woman was Mrs. Beamard. In order to make quite sure Mrs. Ingram sent her sister to the hospital. By this time Mrs. Beamard was sufficiently conscious to recognise her visitor.

Mrs. Beamard Is suffering from a compound fracture of the right leg and severe shock. Her condition has Improved today.