FATALITIES & ACCIDENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 7 November 1910, Page 5

FATALITIES & ACCIDENTS.

SERIOUS ACOTDENT TO A JOCKEY. (United Press Association.) '•"RISTOHUKCH, Sunday. The jockey named Murtagh, who was the rider of Xavier in the first '.'nee .yesterday, and who sustain'.* i concussion of the brain, consennent on the 'hors-e falling, was removed CO the Pospital, where he still remains unconscious, but is not considered to be in a dangerous condition. A CONSTABLE KILLED. PALMERSTON N„ Siimlav. Constable MeConmack, stationed at Palmers-ton North, died at tire Hospital on Saturday as the result .of a fractured skull, incurred in falling backwards oil' the footpath in Mainstreet on Thursday. Constable McCormaek has been 30 years in the police force, having served therein dur.ing the Maori disturbances. He was a w 11-known figure on the Pal:nei\Srnn railway fetation, where h-e was daily on duty. Deceased was a married man FALL FROM A HORSE. PALMERSTON N.. Sunday. John Oolgrove Hayes; aged 34 years, a labourer, of Shannon, a married man with a fa-mil v. was badly injured 'through falling from a 'horse on Saturday, and he li°= in a precari-ous condition at a "private hospital. He is suffering from fracture of the base of Mie.skull. This is .five third case .of a similar injury at Palmersto-u in three day?. KICKED BY A TIORSE. NAPTER, Sunday. A man named Henry Radford was c-Avprely injured in McCorm-ick '= stables on Saturday afternoon while engaged in unhamesisiing a young horse which was ius+ being - broke in. when the animal lashed out with bot-lv hind heels and causr-M Radford in t'he pit < i the stomach. He was removed -to the Hosriital where he now lies in a condition so critical that li'e is not expected to live.