MOTORING FATALITY
(By Telegraph.—Press Asaociat«oc*fcfc^ DANNEVIRKE, This Xfejlgv A motor accident occurred on Satur<gjy evening, resulting in the death of FretoS James Smith (26), a single: man,- and- 1m?----son of Mr. James Smith, an. old residfift ; of Dannevirke. The deceased, who iiras " driving a car belonging to Mr. Ernest Bull, was proceeding to a house in Stanleystreet, where Mr. Bull resided. Mr. BJ3I and Mr. Ernest Sharp were also in ear with-Mr. Smith, but Mr. Sharp apt out.to open the gate to allow the cSr^HK turn off the road into Mr. Bull's ptajfe, jgV had only proceeded about a length mM| it left the road and fell over a bank aVfij? feet, and subsequently rolled. down tße bank another 30 or 40 feet, coming to ipt on its wheels near a stream. Mr.' !Birfl escaped without a scratch, but Mr. SmijWtwas fonnd Unconscious lying across tjfc door of the car, and Buccumbed to ifl^'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 10
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154MOTORING FATALITY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 10
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