TRAGEDY AT MOSGIEL
POLICE ARREST LORRY DRIVER (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 17. As a sequel to the Mosgiel tragedy, in which Neil Harris, aged 24, and Vera Thomson, aged 22, were killed, . the police arrested William Alexander Tait, aged 30, a lorry driver who works at Outram, but who comes from Oamaru. Tait was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with negligent driving causing death, being remanded to April 26 on bail of £4OO.
The inquest was opened and adjourned. The poignancy of the tragedy _ is heightened by the fact that the victims were engaged to be married and they had been spending the evening with Miss Thomson’s parents where the father was celebrating his birthday. The latter saw them off at 11.30 on Saturday night Nearby residents heard the smash but the impact had thrown the bodies and the cycle off the road so that nothing was visible.
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Southland Times, Issue 23795, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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149TRAGEDY AT MOSGIEL Southland Times, Issue 23795, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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