A CABMAN KILLED.
A Mf.lboitk.ne contemporary says :—About midnight last Saturday (August 17), John O'Sht'ii, a cabman, drove Floyd, the wellknown jockey and trainer, to his homo at Newmarket, leaving almost immediately or. the return journey. Early this morning O'Shea was found quite dead on tho footpath of the Mount Alexander Road, near Princes-street. .Fragments of a broken wheel of the hansom cab wero found near the spot. The fragments showed that the wood was very rotten. It is supposed that in coming down the hill the'wheel collapsed, and O'Shea was thrown oiF his seat and killed. The horse and cab were found, with tho remaining wheel broken, a few yards away. The horse had fallen, and remained on the ground till released.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 5459, 2 September 1889, Page 5
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