FATALITY AT PAKOWHAI.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 294, 2 December 1911, Page 6

FATALITY AT PAKOWHAI.

A < LIVE HESIPEXT KILI.EIL An i 1 < - .ri< 1 n ;tig till- death •■t Janies Etn-f. a farmer, who was .-* • ai.-ntalty at Clive on Thursday, was Lehi at the Xapier Hospita! to-day. Lt-fore the District l oronor. Mr. S. E. McCartliy. Ser grant. < ’umniings conducted the case •’•■r tin- j-oln-e ami Mr. Cn-s-v.i-J for the rdatnrs. Walter Burt, a contra< tor at Wairan, and a son of the dec'-ased. deposed the deeeasi *1 was about (? >ar’» old ami resided at Clive. Ti ioiiias Kant say. labourer. Clive, >i* poo-d that s'-ist*-<t the deceased. to cnti-ii a. horse on Thursday g at I’akow t.a:. Deceased !>; :■ --i a !■>->-< !;. round the Im >-■- i. ■ k. There were two horses iti the «.-orri<-r. one of these lieing the !. s ’.i!.:*h <i>-i > a-.-d aft-iwards !■>!. Tic fie,- i..>r-o started tv run away and the one that Burt -vas !<a«in;g f'-ilov.> >l. Dt.<-a-ed atti-inp-•t>i to hold his horse lack, Lut ! < was una'oie to do so. A large part of the rope was held in deceased’s i:ati i. H>- I* t th.- r--pe ran through i t.ami-. Tie l.oi-o got too much p.i-n ami i,<- dereast-d !>‘t I lit •op,- fail ami it < aught m hi- 1 xs.

The horse pu-:< d tire deceased off his f-arid he fe’.l >io'.*.n itolentiy on to the back of his head. The defeased < at.i *1 out (It. (lod ’ ’ ami tL>- horse dragged him about i’*io yards, rt itwas pri -'-tit when Dr. .W. ’f>o S -.' < x..mHi'-d Bait. He -'..i- i hen alive and the doctor ordered b’s .m--:.t« oi.C.g removal to the ho.-piM 1. J<-:m McKti.mv. i.il«jui-<-r. gavt <-or’.m l :or:u; >.- v .■’>• :;vc. Alter tht df-w ast d had been dragged along.

v.-.tte-.i s«-;>.:-;-i:< d L>r Lun in tin r.,shm-, and by following the de- • dA dog fnutui him. Hi firn inii; 'p<-::k. U :‘i:ess obtained ar.d st-::t for a doctor. Dr. ixirc’ix tit posed that deceased was ?.iiriiit.:e-i at twenty nimtites past va Thtimd-iy night, lit* wa.thi n si.fft ring from concussion of the o.frai ;ur< f..p oo';e. a rnptiir ed bladder, and a scalp wound. Hi was urv-otiseiotis, and tn ,-t condition - ■ i -I -k. lie v. a- *-pr rit* *1 or. a: t> o’clo* k in ti.c twining by Dr. H. M. Wii o::. of H.-.-t;r:g-. am l hi, e-imditii'Ul was found to lie hopeless. Aft * r t't.f operation the deecased, gradually sank, and died of shock at 10/'.u Friday rm'>r---.>.g. not having r I con sc ion‘n css. Th. e.r.-mr rm-;--.«d the follow- ■ . - - re- ■■ . ' T' e -i- ■ i-a-> -i. J-imos Burt, di-d cf shock at the Xnpi«*r Ho-pital. at half-past tin «>:i Friday morning, the !‘t Dce--irJ><"-r. It'd I. •’onsequent >-:* bring draggid bv a h-rse the previous day nt Clive.”