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LILY GOODMAN MEMORIAL
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Lily Goodman
1900-1929 |
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Lily Goodman was the fourth
child of Josef Gutman (aka Joseph Goodman) and Sarah Rebecca Harris, and
had been born in Leeds in 1900. Her father was a successful tailor, who
employed a number of family members in his business, Lily being one. In
August 1929, she was working as a saleswoman when her car hit a
stationary lorry near Walshford Bridge, just outside the village of
Hunsingore in Yorkshire, some 12 or 13 miles from her home in Leeds. She sustained a
fracture of the base of her skull and died the following day in
Harrogate Infirmary. Her friend, who was in the car at time of the
accident, survived. Lily is buried at
Hilltop Cemetery in Leeds.
REPORTS IN THE LEEDS MERCURY
These two reports
appeared in the Leeds Mercury. The first is a report of the accident
and the second is a report on the coroner's inquest, held on 2
October.
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LEEDS WOMEN IN A
MOTOR SMASH
ONE KILLED, OTHER
SERIOUSLY INJURED
(From Our Own Correspondent)
HARROGATE, Tuesday
An inquest was opened
and adjourned here to-night on Miss Lily Goodman, aged 25, of
Savile Place, Chapeltown Road, Leeds, who died in Harrogate
Infirmary to-day from injuries received in a motor accident last
night.
Accompanied by a
friend – Miss Mary Caplan, of 77, Leopold Street, Leeds – Miss
Goodman was driving a saloon car along the Great North Road in
the direction of Leeds at Hunsingore. She appears to have run
into the rear of a steam wagon belonging to Messrs Samuel Smith,
of the Old Brewery, Tadcaster.
The car was wrecked,
and both women were picked up unconscious.
Miss Goodman’s
injuries were fractures of the base of the skull and the lower
jaw.
After evidence of identification, the Coroner adjourned the
inquiry pending the recovery of Miss Caplan. She is suffering
from lung injury, and though conscious was reported to-night to
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THEORY OF GIRL’S FATAL
MISTAKE
PUT HER FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR
INSTEAD OF THE BRAKE
(From Our Own Correspondent)
HARROGATE, Wednesday
The suggestion that a Leeds girl
driver put her foot on the accelerator instead of the brake was
made at the inquest at Harrogate to-day on Lily Goodman (25), of
10, Savile Place, Chapeltown, who died from a fractured skull
following a collision with the rear of a stationary lorry near
Walshford Bridge on August 27. Miss Mary Caplan, of 77, Leopold
Street, Leeds, a passenger in the car, was injured, but
recovered.
Arthur Viney, motor driver,
Tadcaster, said his lorry was standing on the left side of the
road, when Miss Goodman’s car crashed into the rear. The impact
pushed the lorry forward nine feet, though the hand brake was
on.
Albert Honeyman, A.A. patrol, who
had just passed the lorry, said another car was travelling
North, but the driver went on to the grass verge. There was room
for two cars to pass the lorry.
The Coroner (Major Innes Ware) said
he imagined that in approaching the lorry and the on-coming car
she lost her head and put her foot on the accelerator instead of
the brake.
A verdict of “Accidental death” was
returned. |
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Extracts provided by Leeds Local Studies
Library. Sources: "Leeds Mercury", Wednesday 28 Aug 1929, page
15 and Thursday 3 Oct 1929, page 6. |
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