A CYCLIST KILLED

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 6

A CYCLIST KILLED

[Sh-ual to tot: Star.] INA'F.RCARGILL, May 1. Another motor tragedy has occurred in Invercargill, and tbo city is achieving jiotoritty in that regard. A taxi-motor cab, driven by a chauffeur named ChaHis, v;is returning from Walbcotown to In-viM-c-arjill vij the North road at eleven o'cl')ck~on Saturday night. Tho cab occupied the iniddlo of the Tend and was travelling at a fair speed. Travelling in the- fam<) direction, and on tho proper skJ© of the road, was a cycKsi naaaed Arthur Wm. Mitchell (thirty-eight years of age). A motor cyclist with, a bright light cam* in the opposite direction. The wr and motor bike swerved to the lefiriand sidm to avoid oi.ber, but in doing so the taxi-cab. nnforinnateJy. ran down the ■ ••.■(■lift from behind. The cycle waft siii.-jbed ont of ekapc, and Mitchell was <-.ii'jiht by the wheel of the cab and <!,-«:;;■ d sonic distance before the cab <<>'.:!"«' be brought to a standstill. When T.ickud up the man w;i6 unconscious, and ,!• the !i.;sprt-d v.ru; found to have a frac-tnr-.'d skull and a ksr fractured in two places. He di<?d in half an hoar. Decoded was a draper's carter in poor circumstances, and loaves a widow and seven children.