MECHANIC KILLED
FREAK AUTOMOBILE TURNS OVER. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Chicago, October 27. One was killed and two seriously injured in an accident to a freak threewheeled automobile, designed like a raindrop, along aero dynamic pnnciples. Francis Turner, aviation mechanic, was killed, while William Francis Forbes Sempill, of London, eldest son of Baron Sempill, is in a critical condition with multiple fractures of the skull and bruises. Charles Dollfuse, of Paris, attache to the Air Ministry, sustained a lacerated face. The latter two sustained a lacerated face. The latter were two passengers by the Graf Zeppelin. The automobile was travelling at a high rate of speed and apparently struck a defect in the pavement and turned over twice.
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Southland Times, Issue 22159, 30 October 1933, Page 7
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