MOTORING FATALITY.
FARMER THROWN OUT AND KILLED. Cliristchurch, May 4. Alexander Craighead, a married farmer belonging to Spotswood, was killed in a motor-ear accident last ni','ht. He was one of a party of four retu'r.ingto Cheviot from Cliristchurch, and at Waiuku the left tyre burst, causing the car to swerve ( against tlio parapet of a culvert and the wheel to collapse. Craighead, who stood up after the collision, was thrown out on his head when the car swerved away from '.he parapet, and died before he reached Kaiapoi in the ambulance. BOY KILLED ACCIDENTALLY. """ Waihi. Shy 4. A boy named Rogers, five jva's of age, was accidentally killed yesterday at Katikati. It appears the little fellow waß met by a brother, agei IS, who had been .out shooting. • Th; latter throw do\Wn the gun to pick his brother up, wften the charge exploded, striking the victim in the back, and causing death shortly afterwards.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1917, Page 8
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154MOTORING FATALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1917, Page 8
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