FATAL ACCIDENT.
TELEGRAPH OPERATOR KILLED. BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, April S.Mr Murdoch Gillies, a telegraph operator, employed in the Wellington office, was killed on the Hutt road this afternoon. He was cycling along the road with a companion, and in attempting to cross in front of a motor car was knocked down, the car passing over his body. He expired almost immediately. The car was owned by Mr Goririg Johnston and was driven by a chaffeur named Bailing. The occupants of the car were Messrs Johnston and F. Grace and two ladies. Gillies was 29 years of age and was unmarried. He was* a son of a farmer at Tapanuil-
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9058, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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111FATAL ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9058, 6 April 1908, Page 5
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