FATAL BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 103, 28 April 1903, Page 2

FATAL BICYCLE ACCIDENT.

On Monday morning as Mr Percy i George was riding to his work at Sentry t Hill, whflte ho was engaged to drive a threshing engine, met with an accident i which, we regret to state, terminated i fatally. He was in company with Mr ; Word and waß making a good pace i along the Waiwakaiho flat towards I Mangaone H'll when, by some mean?, , ho was thrown viol<ntly on to the back , of his head. Mr Wood, who was in ; adtfiinnr, heating a thud looked round i and s,w his companion lying on the , road. Dr. Fookes was summoned and promptly attended the suflV-rer whom [ he ordered to be removed to the hosi pi" il. The services of the Ambulance i Brigade were at once requisitioned and [ th>) ambulance taken ou*, Mr Herbert i Bulk)*; meeting them on the way with • his express kmdly turning round and ' conveying th i members and ambulanc» • to the ecpn j of the accident. On i examination of the pationt ir, was se«n ,' that the base of his skull was fractured II and little hop"8 were entertained of his ('recovery. The unfortunate man liol gerad till 3 o'clock in the afternoon , I when he expired, not having regained . con-cicusne3B. Deceased was a son of ;, Mr Alfred George, of Omata, and some j' years ago lost one of his arms by a • j shootiog accident. He was some little l | while since employed by the Borough I Oouncil as driver of their stone-crush-i ing engine, but on Monday was pro- . coeding to work a threshing engine at iiMr Sampson's farm. He leaves a - widow (a daughter of Mr Adlam of t Oakura) and four children for all of > whom the greatest sympathy is felt. I An icquest will be held at 11 o'clock t this morning at the Courthouse. > ==f^=: