TROTTER CHARGES SHOP WINDOW

Evening Star, Issue 22069, 1 July 1935, Page 6

TROTTER CHARGES SHOP WINDOW

BURSTS INTO PARLOUR AND DIES WOMAN'S ALARMING EXPERIENCE (Per I'kikb Press Association.l AUCKLAND. .June dO. The sight of a horse crashing through the plate-glass window of her shop and then plunging through into the living room at the rear to fall mortally injured on the floor a few feet from her was the alarming experience of Airs L. Coleman, of Great North road, this morning. The horse, a valuable trotting animal, was subsequently destroyed in the room. Harnessed to a trotting sulky, the horse, which had been broken in only five mouths ago, was being schooled by its owner, Mr T. L. M’Quoicl, of Western Springs, when, becoming frightened, it kicked out. upset the sulky, broke the shafts, and bolted down the road. On reaching an intersection it swerved, but instead oi turning the corner maefe for the shops. It narrowly missed a telephone box. and then crossed the footpath and plunged into the display window of the confectionery shop of Mr and Mrs Coleman. In its career the horse first splintered the plate-glass window and then another pane of glass at the back. Although the passageway behind the counter is not 4ft wide and is fully 15ft long, the animal charged down this and through an open door into the living room. There it fell on its side. The animal was severely cut about the lower part of the body, and blood from its many wounds covered the floor of the room and bespattered the walls and furniture. A veterinary surgeon was immediately summoned, and the horse was destroyed. “ I was about to go into the shop, and I was just at the door, when I saw the horse crash through the window,” Mrs Coleman said. 11 I received a terrible shock, and had just time to move into a corner of the living room, when the animal plunged through the doorway and fell on the floor.” Mr M'Quoid said the horse was a five-year-old which he was preparing for the track. It was by Nelson Bingen from Lady Natalie.