SIXTY MILES AN HOUR

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 16 May 1925, Page 5

SIXTY MILES AN HOUR

TWO MOTORISTS KILLED.

THREE OTHERS ESCAPE. (By Electric Telegraph .--Copyright.) Received May 16, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, May 15. A verdict of accidents' death was returned at the inquest on two of the alleged motor bandits, wliio were killed at Stroud earlier in the mor.th, against three others of whom police charges have been preferred. An eye-witness of the tragedy said that lie saw the car travelling at, about sixty miles an hour. A tyro burst and the car mounted the pavement, crashed into a fence and then turned over. The witness found two mon, one of whom was already dead. The other three made off. The accused were committed for trial.— Reuter.

A motor-car with five occupants was observed by the police at Stroud travelling in the direction of Painswick at midnight. The men answered the description of s gang wanted in connection with recent burglaries in Gloucester, and the police secured a motor-car and puisued the car. They met the gang returning from Painswick, whore a garage had been broken into. The gang’s car swerved to avoid a collision and overturned. Three of the men escaped and the two others were pinned under the wreckage, dead. A quantity of stolen good; was found in the car.