Mexborough & Swinton Times, May 29, 1931

Motor Smash.

Mexborough Lady Killed in Scotland.

Disaster on Holidays

We regret to learn of the death, tram injuries received in a motor accident, of Mrs. Mills, wife of Mr. Harry Mills, retired draper, of High Street. Mexboro’.

The accident, of which few particulars are yet available, occurred on Sunday. Mr. Mills was touring in a saloon car, with his wife and her friend, Mrs. Martha Elliott, 27, Helena Street, Mexboro’, when the car came into collision with a ‘bus at Magdalen bridge, Joppa, near Edinburgh.

The car was wrecked and all the occupants were injured, Mrs. Mills gravely. They were removed to the Royal Hospital, Edinburgh, where Mrs. Mills died on Wednesday.

Mr. Mills and Mrs. Elliott are reported to be recovering. Mrs. Mills, formerly Miss Gertrude Dunkerley a member of a Stocksbridge family, is well known and greatly esteemed in Mexborough, to which town she came some thirty years ago as manageress of the “Bon Marche” drapery establishment then owned by the late Mr. W. H. J. Mills and subsequently by his son, Mr. Barry Mills, whom she married.

An Edinburgh correspondent informs us that the accident occurred shortly before one o’clock on Sunday, when the car came into collision with a ‘bus at cross roads on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The car was struck almost head on. Its front wheels, radiator, and engine were smashed and the steering wheel forced in. A window of the ‘bus was smashed, but the passengers escaped injury.

Mrs. Mills was taken out of the car unconscious, suffering concussion. Mr. Mills and Mrs. Elliott were badly shaken and bruised, and all three were taken to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, ‘where, as stated, Mrs. Mills died on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr. Mills end Mrs. Elliott are still in hospital, but on inquiry last night were reported to be making satisfactory progress.