JOCKEY’S DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1925, Page 5

JOCKEY’S DEATH

TETANUS AT ELLERSLIE? EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (Jfer Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 2.

At the inquest on the Jockey, Samuel Walls, aged 25, who died after the meeting at Ellerslie on November 7, John Lambessa, trainer and owner .of Rafferty, said he saw the accident at trie second fence, where his horse was interfered with. He jurilped the fence, blit the jockey came off. Walls told witness in the casualty room that Hypothesis ran the fence down. Rafferty had to make a very clever jump to clear the fence and Walls lost his balance. .

. Asked by counsel, if the Ellerslie course' was dangerous oh account* of the tetanus germ, witness replied Yes. Several horses had died of tetanus following on wounds. Mr. Dickson, representing the deceased’s mother, in answer to the Coroner, said that deceased’s wound, a cut over the left eye, should not have been sewn up in the casualty r ( opm It should have been properly syringed on account of the danger of tetanus.

Doctor Lusk stated the deceased, when admitted to the hospital at 8.30 p.m. on Nov. 13, was suffering from tetanus. The cause of death was primarily a scalp wound and secondly tetanus and heart failure. The Coroner found in accordance with this evidence adding the words, “following on injuries received on November -7.”