DEATH OF A JOCKEY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 December 1925, Page 11

DEATH OF A JOCKEY.

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST

(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND. Dec. 2. At the inquest on the jockey Samuel Walls, aged 25, who died after the at Ellerslie on November 7th Lambess, trainer and owner of Rafferty, said he saw' the accident at the second fence, where his horse was interfered with. It jumped the fence, but 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 dear the fence, and Walls lost his balance. Asked by counsel if the Ellerslie course was a dangerous one on account of tetanus germ, witness replied yes, and said that several horses had died of tetanus following on wounds received. Mr Dickson, representing the deceased’s mother, in answer to the coroner, said that deceased had a wound o r cut over the left eye. It should not have been sewn up in the casualty room; it should have been properly syringed on account of the danger of tetanus.

Dr. Lusk stated that the deceased, when admitted to the hospital at 8.30 p.m. on November 13 was suffering from tetanus. The cause of death was primary a scalp wound, and secondary tetanus and heart failure. The coroner found in accordance with this evidence, adding the words, “Following on injuries received on November 7 th.”