FATAL ACCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 104, 4 May 1929, Page 12

FATAL ACCIDENT.

CYCLIST DIES IN HOSPITAL PEDESTRIAN INJURED. SMASH ON GREAT NORTH ROAD. A strange accident happened on the Great North. Road, near Bond Street, Archhill, shortly after, six o'clock last evening, when a motor cyclist, Mr. Henry Epliraim Morrow, received fatal injuries, and an- aged pedestrian, Mr. Robert Spiers, was rendered unconscious. No one witnessed the smash, and apparently the two principals in it were the only ones on the road when it occurred. Both men were found lying alongside the machine in an unconscious state. Tliey were attended by Dr. Kendrick, and taken by the St. John Ambulance to the public hospital, where Mr. Mor-

row died at 8.15 p.m. ITe had suffered a fracture of the skull. Mr. Spiers, who resides at 30, Cooper Street, Grey Lynn, received concussion, but he lias returned to consciousness, and liis condition is not serious. ! Mr. Morrow resided at 66, Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn. He leaves a widow and four children. He was a wliarf foreman, aged 50. Evidence of identification was given by Harriette Morrow, wife of deceased, when an inquest into the circumstances of the accident was opened by the Coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning. Her husband, she said, had ridden a motor cycle for three or four years, though he had had the machine he was riding at tlie time Qf the accident only six weeks.