KILLED FOR A PICTURE.
A motor-cycle race arranged for a kinematograph exhibition was said to have resulted in the death of Herbert Victor Fox, 21, on whom an inquest was held at Portsmouth. Fox, who was described as an expert in the management and manufcture of motor-cycles, was said to have gone with a friend to a. public cycle track on the recreation ground at the north of ' Portsmouth to race while kinematograph pictures were taken. Tho track was one-third of a mils in circumference, and safe for ordinary cycles up to 30 miles an hour. Fox, however, attained a speed of between 70 and 80 miles an hour, and in making an awkward turn was thrown off with such violence that his spine was broken, and he suffered 1 other injuries, which which he died five hours later. He had been warned against excessive speed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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146KILLED FOR A PICTURE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 14
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