OVER BRIDGE PARAPET.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21032, 22 May 1930, Page 10

OVER BRIDGE PARAPET.

A MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT. 1 DRIVER qF OAR MISSING. . I (Pee Dieted 1 Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 21. About 11.30 last night a five-seater car was discovered Suspended over the parapet of a bridge over the Tamaki River south of Otabiffliu. The front of the car had crashed through the parapet; and hung over the waiter. The left-hand door was open, and in. the water directly below was found a man’s overcoat. The river has been searched, but the driver of the car has not been found. It is ascertained this morning that the driver was Mr .Alexander Duthie, aged 38, a prominent business man of Waiuku. Before entering business there he was the departmental man ager of a firm in Christchurch. He is at married man with one child. At the time of the accident Mr Duthie was motoring to aneet his brother, Mr R. T. Duthie, who. was arriving by train from Dunedin. * - t Mr R. T. DiiLhic, whom the missing man was motoring to meet, is the general manager of the t New Zealand Express Company.