FATAL FALL FROM DRAY
RACECOURSE ACCIDENT*
EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST
An inquest concerning the death of Joseph Partington, aged 44, who received fatal injuries on Saturday when ho was thrown from a horse-drawn carf at tho Ellerslie racecourse, was held before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., coroner, yesterday. Evidence was given that deceased had been employed for more than five years as a carter at the Ellerslie racecourse. On Saturday morning he was found lying beside an overturned dray. He was badly injured and was conveyed to the Auckland Hospital, where he died. No one witnessed the accident, but, it was thought that the horse took fright and ran tho wheel of tho dray against the kerb. This caused the vehicle to overturn and deceased was thrown heavily on to the roadway. Deceased was a married man and resided with his wife in Harding Avenue, Mount Wellington.
The coroner returned a verdict that deceased died from a fracture of the skull following a fall from a dray which he was driving in the course of iiis employment and which overturned when the horse bolted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 12
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