PARMER KICKED BY HORSE
WIPE’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY,
A well-known district fanner, Air. Robert Oliver Smith, of Earlyhurst, aged 0-i years, was found dead on Thursday afternoon, apparently as the result of having been kicked, and dragged by a horse lie was breaking in, says a message from Aiastcrton. There were no eye-witnesses of the accident. Airs. Smith saw her husband yard an unbroken yearling and put a long rope round its neck, preparatory to schooling it, but she then returned to the house. On Air. Smith failing to come in to lunch she investigated and found the gate of the yard broken down. Some distance down the path leading from .the yard she found her husband’s body, and in a gully below the horse still with the rope round 'its neck. Apparently Air. Smith had been kicked on the head and had then become entangled, in the rope and had been dragged by the animal.
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Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 10 April 1933, Page 4
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155PARMER KICKED BY HORSE Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 10 April 1933, Page 4
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