ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13791, 26 October 1908, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A HORSEWOMAN KILLED. . Per Press Association. I v NAPIER, Oofe 25. Mrs -Phyllis Brookes, aged about 40, who -was employed as barmaids at the Criterion Hetdft-Mnet with a fatal accident- while -trat • riding to-day. Her horse refused ,%o\ pass a trap on the Petane .bridge at Port Ahuriri > and * turned round and bolted to near the corner of Shakespeare -ans Battery roads. Mrs Brookes was throws, and was dragged for a short disjlanoey Her skull was fractured, and she at the hospital about three hours' later. She has a son at Studholnle Junction and a brother at Clinton^. KILLED $V A TRAIN.A DUNEDIN, Ocfe/20. Lachlan McDonald, a very old resi- t dent of Glenmore, was accidentally / killed about Mount Stuart this morning by the Lawrence train. Deceased was very deaf, and had been repeatedly warned to keep off the line. H© was an old age pensioner and was well* known throughout the district. BABY KILLED BY A HORSE. NELSON, Oct., 26. ' * An infant, of eighteen months, a son - of J. H. Lines, was found lying unconscious in a paddock with a contused -wound in the head. •. He is supposed to have been killed by, a horsey He, died within a few hours.