Newton Fatality: Boy knocked down by Motor and Succumbs to Injuries: Shortly before o’clock yesterday afternoon a boy named Leonard Early, aged nine, was the victim of distressing fatality at Newton Abbot. The lad was coming from Highweek School in company with schoolmates, and when in the narrow portion of the street, near Pinsent’s Brewery, was knocked down by a motor taxicab driven by Mr. William Rendell, 23, Westbourne-road, Torquay. The lad, who had sustained serious injuries, was picked up by Mrs. Alice Burge, and conveyed to the hospital in a motor car, but admission was discovered to be dead. … …
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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920