EXCITEMENT IN STREET
CHARGE FOR HORSE STRIKES GIRL
Dominion Special Service.
Christchurch, December 30.
A horse attached to a hawker’s cart attracted a good deal of attention yesterday afternoon, when it fell down near the tramway sheds in Moorhouse Avenue, and was unable to get up again. A crowd soon gathered, offering the usual abundance of good advice, but the horse, in spite of all efforts, refused to get up or was unable to do so. A constable was sent for, and arrived armed with a gun intended to end the sufferings of the animal. The constable stood off, took careful aim, and fired, missing the horse, and putting some pellets in the leg of a young lady standing by. There was immediate consternation, but the girl’s injuries, were not serious, and treatment in a near-by house from a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade soon put her right. The pellets had barely gone more than skin deep. The constable's second shot was more successful as far as the destruction of the horse was concerned, and the carcass was hoisted on a truck and taken away.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 82, 31 December 1928, Page 10
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