DRAGGED BY HORSE
YOUNG FARMER'S DEATH ACCIDENT AFTER DISCING FOOT CAUGHT IN CHAIN __ ' [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN. Sunday Fatal injuries were received by Mr. Thomas Edward Portis, aged 20, through being dragged by a horse which ho was unharnessing from a set of discs on Saturday evening. Mr. Portis was a son of Mr. Thomas Portis, of Airedale, a well-known North Otago Jersey breeder. He had been discing with a fourhorse team and had uncoupled the horses when his foot caught in a chain. Tho horse, taking fright, dragged him about 15 chains. Ho did not regain consciousness and died soon alter. At the inquest to-day medical evidence was to the effect that death was duo to laceration of the brain. The coroner returned a verdict accordingly, adding that the injuries, were .received through being accidentally dragged by a horse.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22197, 26 August 1935, Page 12
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