CAR OVER EMBANKMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1929, Page 2

CAR OVER EMBANKMENT

MARRIED COUPLE KILLED (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Recd. Nov. 9.11 a.m.) -SYDNEY, Nov. 9. Crashing over a fifty feet railway embankment, in a car at Bargo River, T. Dollahan and his wife were killed. Hearing the crash, a nearby shopkeeper rushed to the scene and dragged the bodies from a line. A few minutes later a train hurtled into the car, carrying it for a quarter of a mile. . » The, shopkeeper knowing that a train, was due, fired a gun and waved a lantern, in the effort to warn the driver of the train. MAGISTRATE’S MISHAP. CHRISTCHURCH, November 9. At the Colombo Street crossing last evening, a collision occurred between the express from the South and a fiveseater Sedan car owned by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M. When the express was some distance away Mr Levvey was apparently signalled on by the crossing keeper, but the car stalled projecting slightly over the tracks. Mr Levvey got out of the car on his own side, and went round to assist his wife to get out. The crossing-keeper attempted to help Mr Levvey to push his car clear' of the train, but they wqre not successful. Nobody was injured. The car suffered damage to the right front wing. UNLAWFUL CONVERSION. WANGANUI, November 9. William Stafford Gene Anderson, alias Mercer, a Canadian, aged, .34, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for unlawfully converting to his own use a car owned by J. Quirke, of Taihape. On November 6 he was sentenced to three months at Hastings, for a similar offence.