DISTRESSFUL HOME-COMING

Evening Star, Issue 17154, 22 September 1919, Page 8

DISTRESSFUL HOME-COMING

A BRIDEfS NARROW ESCAPE. Arriving with his English bride by one of the transports, Arthur Leslie Ransom, a returned soldier, was met by his aged mother, Mrs Elizabeth Ransom, and bis two brothers at the Anzac Buffet at Sydno- a fortnight, ago. Alter the happy reunion the party journeyed home by train to Auburn,' and on their arrival at the station they were met, by arrangement, by a motor car, in which they were to complete the journey home. Approaching the bridge the car, which was being driven bv John Duncan, swerved and smashed into a corrugated iron fence. The car tumbled over the bridge and landed near the permanent way, 18ft below, face downward. A brother of the soldier, Frank Ransom, jumped out of the car just as it swerved Into the fence, and, landing in the roadway, fractured both his arms. The remainder of the party wore pinned beneath the car, and all were injured. Mrs Ransom, who is 68 years of age, received serious scalp wounds and internal injuries. Mrs Ransom, Jun.. was in a. critical condition, the base of her skull having been fractured. Bhe is not expected to recover. Allan Ransom sustained a compound fracture of the left arm, a dislocated right knee, and abrasions to the face. John Duncan, the driver of the car, had one of his arms fractured ; he was also injured in the head, and suffered from shock.