Clement HICKS [17302]

  General Notes:

SAGHS Birth Registration
HICKS Clement 25-Feb-1900 M Richard James HICKS Flora Sarah BARTHOLOMEW Mount Torrens Talunga 655/72


SAGHS Death Registration
HICKS Clement 04-Feb-1935 35 M Mount Barker 567/799:
Surname: HICKS
First Names: Clement
Death Date: 04-Feb-1935
Age: 35
Gender: M
Marital Status: M
Place of Death: Woodside
Residence: Mount Torrens
District: Mount Barker
Book/Page: 567/799


SAGHS SA Cemetery database
HICKS Clement 05-Feb-1935 35 Mount Torrens General Burial Register 1935

  Research Notes:

Border Watch (Mount Gambier, SA : 1861 - 1954) Tue 5 Feb 1935
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
Butcher Succumbs To Injuries.
CAR CRASHES THROUGH FENCE. Adelaide, Today.
Fatal head injuries were received by Clement Hicks (35), butcher, of Mount Torrens, when his motor car crashed through a post and wire fence and fell ten feet to the edge of a creek late on Friday night.
Bleeding from a severe gash on the left " side of the head, Hicks staggered about a mile before he was found wandering speechless and dazed along the rnain road near Woodside, about 6 a.m; on Saturday. On being taken, to the Onkaparinga Hospital the injured man underwent ,an operation, but, died yesterday. Hicks left a wife and three young children.


Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954) Thu 7 Feb 1935
MAN WALKS MILE
After Receiving Fatal Injuries
CAR CRASHES THROUGH FENCE Fatal head injuries were received by Clement Hicks, 35, butcher, of Mount Torrens, when his motor car crashed through a post and wire fence and fell 10 ft. to the edge of a creek near Woodside on Friday night or Saturday morning. Bleeding from a severe gash on the left (Side of his head, Mr. Hicks staggered about a mile before he was found wandering, speechless and dazed, on the main road, near Woodside, about 6 a.m. on Saturday by Mr. F. Lauterbach, who was on his way to work.
Taken to the Onkaparinga District Hospital, the injured man underwent an operation, but he died at 3.40 p.m. on Monday. Five wooden fencing posts were knocked out of the ground by Mr. Hicks's single-seater car when it failed to negotiate the gradual curve approach of the concrete Plummer's Creek bridge.
The car also dislodged some cement from the first bridge post. As the car was reduced to a mass of twisted metal, it is remarkable that Mr. Hicks should have emerged from it alive. The car landed on its side, at the water's edge.


The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954) Fri 8 Feb 1935
SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WOODSIDE
Car Crashes And Driver Killed
While returning from Adelaide on Friday night last the car which Mr. Clement Hicks (35), butcher, of Mount Torrens, was driving crashed into the fence at Plummer's Bridge, and finished up in a creek? about 10 feet below the level of the road.

It is not known what time the accident occurred but at about 6 o'clock on Saturday morning Mr. Hicks was seen staggering along the road about a mile from Woodside and bleeding profusely from, a severe gash in the side of his head by Mr. F. Lauterbach.

He was dazed and speechless and was at once taken to the Woodside Hospital where he underwent operation immediately, but he died on Tuesday. He regained conscious ness for a brief period and was able to teli his name to the hospital authorities.

Mounted Constable Schneider pre pared a report for the Coroner (Mr. P. Richards, J.P.), who deemed an inquest unnecessary.

Five wooden fencing posts were knocked out of the ground by Mr. Hicks' single-seater car when it failed to negotiate the gradual curve ap proach of the concrete Plummer's Creek bridge. The car also dis lodged some cement from the first bridge post. As the car was re duced to a mass of twisted metal, it is remarkable that Mr. Hicks should have emerged from it alive. The car landed on its side at the water's edge.
It appeared that the car had skidded about 20 yards from where it first struck the fence to the point where it toppled over.
A widow and two young children survive.

Clement married Florence Jean COOPER [17308] [MRIN: 6371] on 27 Sep 1924 in St Johns Church, Mount Pleasant, South Australia. (Florence Jean COOPER [17308] was born on 18 Sep 1904 in Mount Pleasant, South Australia and died on 16 Feb 2004 in South Australia.)

  Marriage Notes:

SAGHS Marriage Registration
HICKS Clement COOPER Florence Jean 27-Sep-1924 Richard James HICKS George Walter COOPER Talunga 300/927:
Groom Surname: HICKS
Groom Given Names: Clement
Bride Surname: COOPER
Bride Given Names: Florence Jean
Marriage Date: 27-Sep-1924
Marriage Place: St Johns Church Mount Pleasant
Groom Age: 24
Groom Marital Status: S
Groom Father: Richard James HICKS
Bride Age: 20
Bride Marital Status: S
Bride Father: George Walter COOPER
District: Talunga
Book/Page: 300/927