Serious Accident.
About nine o'clock this morning a young lad named Henry Jilles, about sixteen years of ago, met with a painful accident. The boy is engaged at Mr Lukey's stables, and it appears that Mr Lukey was on his way down the Ferry road, and the boy took a horse and rode after him. However, when he got as far as tbe East belt the spirit of rebellion took possession of the aninnl and it bolted up the Ferry road, through High street, and up Hereford street. When the horse crossed the Hereford street bridge the lad was clinging round itß neck. As the animal passed the Police Station, Sergeant-major M'Donald ran out and begun to follow it up. When the horse got about 120 yards past the station, the boy was thrown on his head on*to the pavement, and received a very ugly wound. All the right side of his head was skinned, and a deep gash made in it. The boy was taken to the Police Station and then to Lukey's stables, where Dr Symes dressed his wounds. He was unconscious for a few minutes. He cannot say how he slipped round the horse's neck.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6292, 17 July 1888, Page 3
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198Serious Accident. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6292, 17 July 1888, Page 3
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