THE ACCIDENT TO MR J.J. MOYNIHAN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 23 January 1895, Page 2

THE ACCIDENT TO MR J.J. MOYNIHAN.

Westport Times, January 18th. A feeling of intense sorrow pervaded the community yesterday, when the news was circulated that Mr J. J. Moynihan the well-known solicitor, had been thrown from a horse on the Nine Mile road, and sustained serious injury. The facts connected with the accident, as we learn them from Dr Willis, are these : — Mr Moynihan and Dr Willis went out for a ride together yesterday afternoon about 8 o'clock, proceeding up the Nine Mile Road. Mr Moynihan rode a wellknown horse called " Tomboy," which has lately been brought m from grass, and was consequently a little fresh. Dr Willis was mounted on his white hack. After riding a mile out of town horses were exchanged. Dr Willis found Tomboy rather difficult to manage, and once or twice the animal got away with him. The Nine Mile Ferry was reached without mishap, and here the horses were handed over to a person to hold, and the gentlemen crossed the river by the punt. When they returned to the Westport side of the Buller, Mr Moynihan insisted on riding Tomboy back to town, suggesting* chaffingly, that the doctor was too much of a novice m the saddle to manage him. A half-mile of the return journey was covered at a slow pace, when Mr Moynihan proposed they should have a gallop, and set his horse going. The animal evidently bolted. Dr Willis followed as fast as his slower mount would permit, but something like two mileß had been traversed before he overtook the leading horse. Then he discovered that it was riderless. The doctor returned up the road, calling loudly, and at a spot about thre£ quarters of a mile back from the spot where he overtook the riderless horse, he found Mr Moynihan lying on the roadside m a helpless concondition.

Messrs Darragh and Slowey were coming down the road m a buggy, and they immediately made room m their vehicle for the injured gentleman, and he was brought to his residence at 6.45 m the evening. A careful examination was made by Drs Willis and Gaze, assisted by Mr Pickering, and the doctors reported to Mr Moynihan's anxious friends that he was suffering from dislocation of the spine between the shoulders.

The sufferer is quite conscious and cheerful. He says he remembers spurring the horse and subsequently being thrown on his head, but cannot give any further description of the accident.

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