MOTOR TRAGEDY
CAR PLUNGES INTO RIVER THREE PERSONS DROWNED. By T«le3rap?2—Press Association—Copyright. (Kccoivod July 27. 0.35 p.m.) SVDNKV, July 27. A motor-car, with throe passengers and a driver aboard, plunged into tho Hunter river m-ar MuswoiJbrook hist night. Tho passengers, Airs Harrington, Alderman Mackay, of Enfield, and Mr Flavcy wore drowned. Tho driver escajicd. The party was returning from MorriwaT and tho night was dark. Twelve miles from Muswolibrook tho road runs close to the. river-bank. Tim motor ran off ami plunged into the flooded river forty feet below. The chauffeur, Suess, was thrown clear of the car and washed several hundred yards down stream. Ho managed to rid himself of liis> overcoat, and scrambled ashore. Mrs Barrington’s body has boon recovered. She was a prominent worker in the Liberal cause in Victoria and Now South Wales, and was touring tho district as an organiser for the Liberal League. Mr Mackay was an cx-Mayor of Enfield, and a well-known carcase butcher. Mr Flavcy was manager for Tindalc and Company at Muswcllbrook. Suoss was a stranger to the district, and ivas unaware tliat the floods had scooped out a portion of the road, necessitating a deviation. Ho followed tho old road, and plunged through the gap into thirty feet of water.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7864, 28 July 1911, Page 5
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210MOTOR TRAGEDY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7864, 28 July 1911, Page 5
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