LORRY’S MAD CAREER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20793, 12 August 1929, Page 9

LORRY’S MAD CAREER

MAN AND BOY KILLED. SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—^Copyright.) SYDNEY, August 11. (Received August 12, at 1.30 a.m.) A motor lorry which was travelling at high speed in King street, Newtown, got out of hand and mounted a footpath. It cut a boy almost to pieces, killed an old man, and injured a baby girl. Continuing its course the lorry smashed the plate-glass windows of several small shows, till at the end of its destructive career it stopped against a newsagent’s window. The driver and two men with him were seriously injured. The killed are Michael Scully, aged CO, of St. Peter’s, and Robert Haddow, aged 10, of Newtown. The injured are Edna Johnston, aged four, severe head injuries; Percy Spittlehouse, lorry driver, St. Peter’s, fractured skull; John Parker and Henry Ludwell, of Newtown, both head injuries. The whole tragedy was enacted in, a few moments, and people in the street hardly grasped what was happening before the incident ended. The boy was crushed against one of the shop fronts, being dismembered and shockingly mutilated. Scully’s injuries were nearly as bad, and his death was instantaneous. The police seized beer bottles found in the lorry, and there were several broken ones on the pavement, the contents mhmling with the blood of the dead.