HORSE ELECTROCUTED
RIDER THROWN INTO AIR
A fortunate escape from serious injury, or possibly death, was experienced by 'Mr. Leslie Quin, aged about 24, when Ins horse was electrocuted in Studholme street, Mon'insville, on .Saturday. Mr. Quin. who is a. drover, was riding his horse near the. water-table on the southern side of the street, when he was suddenly thrown high into the air landing some distance from the horse, which lay kicking on the ground. The, horse was killed almost instantaneously. According to a Power Board official a live wire was lying across an earthwire which travelled down a power pole near to which (he accident occurred. The/e was a water-main not far from where the wire entered the ground, and the current apparently travelled in this direction, making the section of ground over which the horse walked, '-alive."
Although suffering from shock. Mr Quin was not seriously hurt.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 13
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150HORSE ELECTROCUTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 28 January 1936, Page 13
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