MOTOR FATALITY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 133, 28 July 1911, Page 3

MOTOR FATALITY.

CAR PLUNGES INTO RIVER. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. United Press Association. Sydney, July 27. A motor-ear with three passengers and a driver aboard plunged into the Hunter River, near Musswellbrook. Tim passengers, Mrs. Barrington, Alderman Mackay, of Enfield, and another man named I'Mavey, were drowned. The driver escaped. The party was returning from Merrin'a late at night. It was very daik. Twelve miles from Mussjvellbrook the road inns close to the river bank. The motor-car ran oil and plunged into the Hooded river, forty feet below. The chauifenr (Sucss) was thrown clear of the. ear, and was washed for several hundred yards down the river. He managed to rid himself of his overcoat, and then scrambled ashore. Mrs. Barrington’s body was recovered. She was a prominent worker in the Liberal cause in Victoria and New South Wales, and was touring the district as an organiser oi the Liberal League. Mr. Mackay was ex-Mayor of Enfield, and well known as a carcase butcher. Mr. Flavey was the manager of the Tindale Company at Musswellbrook. Sucss, a stranger to the district, being unaware that fioocis had scooped out a portion of a road, necessitating a. deviation, followed tue old road, and plunged into a gap containing 30 feet of water.