MOTOR LORRY AMOK
TWO PERSONS KILLED CAREER OF DISTRUCTION SYDNEY, August 11. A motor lorry travelling at high speed in King street, Newtown, got out of hand, mounted a footpath, 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 in several small shops, till at the end of forty yards’ destructive career, it stopped against a newsagent’s window. The driver and two men with him were seriously injured. The killed are:— Midiael Scully, 60, of St. Peter’s. Robert Haddon, 10, of Newtown. The injured are: — Edna Johnstone, 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 fiw moments, and the people in the street hardly grasped what was happening before the incident ended. - .; . " The boy was crushed against one of the shop fronts and dismembered, 'being shockingly mutilated. Mr. Scully’s injuries were nearly as bad, death being instantaneous. The police seized beer bottles found in the lorry, and several broken ones on the pavement, the contents mingling with the blood of the dead. -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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199MOTOR LORRY AMOK Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17027, 12 August 1929, Page 7
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