A sad fatal motor-cycle accident took place on Siccawei Road late on Saturday night, resulting in the death of Mr. Elm Loveland, of No. 654 Avenue Joffre.
Mr. Loveland, who was only 21 years of age and an American citizen, must have been riding his motor cycle alone at the time of the tragedy, for at 1215 a.m. two Belgian residents who were motoring along Siccawei Road saw a foreigner lying on the side of the road and a motor cycle in a creek off the road. They did not attempt to remove the body, but immediately went to the Bubbling Well Police Sation and reported the matter.
Constable McRobbie accompanied the two gentlemen to the spot where the accident took place, and there found the body lying in the position mentioned. He stopped a big motor ear which was passing, the other being too small, and conveyed the body to the Red Cross Hospital where life was pronounce ed extinct.
An. especially painful cireumstance of the tragedy is that one of the nurses at the. Hospital recognized the dead man as her brother, It is understood that Mr. Love-land had only been a few months in China. He was-in the employ of Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Ca. The deepest. sympathy will be expressed for his sister, and also for other relatives who are believed to be engaged in mission work in China,
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