TRAGIC CHAPTER

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10722, 24 December 1927, Page 5

TRAGIC CHAPTER

MAN INJURED ANOTHER MOTOR SMASH. Electric Telegraph—Press Association CAMBRIDGE, Last Night. At about 7.30 o’clock last night a serious side-on motor collision took place between a service car bound for Rotorua and Mr Alfred Smith’s car conveying newspapers. Both vehicles are on the Hamilton-Roto-rua service. The impact occurred at a sharp bend on the Kapiro road at the Cambridge borough boundary. Mr James M. Mooney, an employee of the Forestry Department at Tuai, Wairoa, who was seated in the rear seat of -the service car sustained two. broken ribs through a broken hood support striking him. All the other passengers escaped injury, though they sustained severe shock. DROWN IN G TRAGEDY. AUCKLAND, Last Night. The body found in the harbour yesterday has been identied as that of Edith Alston Hammond, aged 47, single, who has been missing from her home at Birkenhead since December 15. An overcoat and umbrella considered to be those of deceased,' were found on the Devonport ferry boat that day. At the inquest to-day evidence was given that deceased was subject to bilious attacks and giddiness and the theory was advanced that she had been leaning over the side of the boat to vomit and overbalanced. BOY’S NARROW ESCAPE. AUCKLAND, December 23. A nine-year-old boy named Neville Scott, of Devonport. had a miraculous escape recently when a six-pound shell (believed to have been extinct) exploded. The pieces ripped away portion of the verandah of his parents’ residence, while the concussion shook the houses in the vicinity, startling the residents and shattering the glass windows. The shell had been brought home from liangitoto Island a year ago by Mr Scott’s brother and it reposed on his dressing table till Mi's Scott threw the shell into the yard. Neville Scott later dropped it on the asphalt, causing the explosion. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR. , Thelma Keele. aged 4 years, residing in 342 Stanmore road, Christchurch, was knocked down by a motor-car yesterday evening and received a fractured jaw. a fractured left leg and injuries to the head.. She was admitted to the hospital and her condition is serious, says a Bless wire