BOY KILLED AT MOUNT ALBERT.
AN accident of a most distressing character happened at Mount Albert on Saturday after, noon, resulting in the death of a lad of 12 years, named Ernest Travers Chalk, son of Mr J. A. Chalk, of Ponsonby. The boy was amusing himself by riding one of the horscH at Mr Giltnonr's farm, where Ilia father and tho family wero staying. By some unexplained means, tho horso becamo frightened, and tho boy was thrown oil. His foot caught in tlic stirrup, and he was dragged along somodistancejhis skull being fractured and tho brains scattered over the ground. Tho horse was quickly captured, But the poor lud expired about instantaneously. The body was brought in'.o the losidonce of the deceased's parents in Ponsonby Road, and an inquest arranged to tutco placa this afternoon at tho Club Hotsl. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3825, 13 November 1882, Page 2
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