FATAL ACCIDENT AT DEVONPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8671, 14 September 1891, Page 5

FATAL ACCIDENT AT DEVONPORT.

KICKED BY A HORSE.

About ton o'clock on Saturday morning a well-known and respected resident of Devouporfe, named William Fraser, died from the effects of a kick received from a horse on the previous day. It appears from the statements of Sirs. M. L. M. Watkins, a neighbour, and Mrs. Collie, daughter of the deceased, that about halfpast nine on Friday morning last Fraser was trying to catch a horse which was in a passage about seven or eight feet wide between his residence and that of his neighbour. He was behind the animal, and was endeavouring to' get to its head when the horse let out with one of its hind legs, and kicked deceased in the groin. He made his way to the steps of his own back door, and there sat down for a while. On being questioned by his daughter lie said that the horse had kicked him, but that he was not much hurt, and would vary soon be all right again. However, as his hopes did not appear to bo in the way of realisation he had to be put to bed, and Dr. .Parkinson was called in. All that medical skill could do was done for the deceased, but the shock to his system was too sever?, being an old man, and he succumbed on Saturday morning. "r Mr. Fraser was sixty-four years of age at the time of his death, and was respected by all who were acquainted with him. He was the father-in-law of Mr. Collie, of t.he firm of Collie and Self, tailors, of Victoriastreet East, and had been living for some time past with that gentleman at his residence iii Brick Bay Road, Devonport. Dr. Philson, the coroner, will hold an inquest into the cause of death at the Flagstaff Hotel this morning.