MYSTERY CLEARED UP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 11

MYSTERY CLEARED UP

ACCIDENT ON GREAT NORTH ROAD DEATH OF WATERSIDER Further light was thrown on a motor accident, considered mysterious at the time of its occurrence, when an inquest on the of Henry Ephraim Morrow was concluded this morning. M R UORROW, who was a water- j side worker, aged 56, was married, and lived at 66 Richmond Avenue, Grey Lynn. He died in the Auckland Hospital on the evening of May 3, only 45 minutes after his admission. Alfred Darby said this morning that he was walking along Great North Road about six o’clock in the evening on May 3 when a motor-cyclist passed him travelling at about 20 miles an hour. He was on his right side of the road, about 10ft out from the kerb. Witness could not be sure whether there was a light on the cycle or not. "I heard a crash and men called out," he said. “When I arrived on the scene two men were lying unconscious one on each side of the cycle.” It was through trying to avoid Robert Speirs, a pedestrian, that Mr. Morrow was said to have met his death. Mr. Speirs said that, when crossing the Great North Road to Bond Street he had felt something strike him, and then everything was a blank and lie remembered nothing more. A verdict of accidental death was returned in accordance with medical evidence that showed Mr. Morrow to have been suffering from a fractured skull when he was admitted to the hospital.