ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
At the inquest at Port Chalmers yesterday touching the death of James Pickering, aged 72 years, at the Heads on the 21st, a verdict of " Death from hemorrhage of the "brain" was returned in tonus of medical evidence based on a post-mortem, examination. The deceased was visiting one of his sons, and went out on horseback a little after 7 a.m. Two hours later he was found lying beside his horse unconscious. He expired before medical aid arrived. Whilo negotiating a corner at a smart pace on Tuesday afternoon a youth named Sloane, a member of the Oainaru Telegraph Gallery, fell from the back of a horse on to the asphalt footpath (says tho 'Mail') and sustained a, bad. concussion and. fractured the base of his skull. About 8.20 rum. Hilda Wight stepped off the car from Normanby at Howe street, before it had stopped, and fell to tho ground. She was conveyed to the Dunedin Hospital, where her slight injuries were attended to.
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Evening Star, Issue 15606, 24 September 1914, Page 4
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167ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS Evening Star, Issue 15606, 24 September 1914, Page 4
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