A. SENSATIONAL BOLT.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14432, 13 August 1912, Page 7

A. SENSA TIONAL BOLT.

(PKESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, August 12. A sensation wns caused in Lower Queen street shortly after five o'clock this evening by a horse boiting from Queen titreet wharf and seriously injuring -ilrsi Wh.tcombo, agod Gl years, and sina.shinii a platc-glaes window valued at about £20. Tiie horse in question was being placed in a horsobox preparatory to ue;ng shaped on board tiio iiaheuo, whicn was lying at. tiie Queen stieot wharf. As the annual was uetncj put into the box ;t rearwl and fell back. Picking itoelf up, it ran along tiio wharf, jumped the fence between the o!U and new wha.f, and now thoroughly maddened, da:h.id towards Quetn street. Just outside Mr John Turner's hosiery shop, at tiie corner of Queen .md Quay streets, Mrs Whftenmifo md her grandson, Master Henry Cowie, aged eleven (* son (if tho Rev. Arthur Cowie), were standing. The horso was on them befote th iy had a chanto of «scap.ng. Mrs Whitcombe wii.tt knocked down and the horeo dnsJicd into tho window, causing broken to fiy, cutting Mrs Wnitconibe sevcrftly on the head and al.s.> badly cutting itself. Master Cowie also reeeivetl a kick on the knee. Mrs Whitcotnho was taken homo in the ambutsuce. After breaking the window the horse jrot up, and although severdj- cut about the neck «md body, dashed away aira.n, but it was stopped in Albert street without doins further damage. The (lying glass considerably damaged the contents of the windo-v.* °