CYCLIST KILLED
LEFT DEAD ON ROAD LORRY DRIVER ARRESTED. CLUE OF BROKEN GLASS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL. August 6. Struck while riding a bicycle in Gladstone about 7.30 o’clock last night by a half-ton motor-truck, Arthur Sydney Harper, aged 56. was killed, apparently instantaneously. The driver of the truck failed to stop; he accelerated at a fast pace and disappeared. Mr Harper’s young son, who was cycling in front of his father, was also struck, but was only slightly injured.
When the motor-truck struck Harper it flung him into the air, his head striking the windscreen of the truck as he fell. The crash was heard by nearby residents. Police were immediately notified. A piece of glass was found on the road, and. with this as clue, exhaustive inquiries were made, with tlie assistance of three Transport Department inspectors and two city traffic inspectors.
Inquiries lasted all night, and. early in the morning a truck was found in a garage with a broken windscreen and a broken left-hand lamp. With this additional clue, detectives pursued investigation, and aroused a young man from his bed this morning. After an interview the man was arrested.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1939, Page 5
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