ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
[Peb, Pkess Association.] HASTINGS, July 12. At the inquest yesterday touching the death or the boy named Willie Johnson, a eon of Percy Johnson, the well-known jockey and trainer, who was killed by a saddle slipping round a. pony, resulting in his being da-agged some distanioe with his foot caught in the stirrup, a verdict of accidental death was returned, j The police last night received word from Oirig station that a man had been found lying dead in a paddock, with a gun beside him. Apparently he ! had been dead, a month. He has not yet been identified.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8672, 12 July 1906, Page 3
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102ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Star (Christchurch), Issue 8672, 12 July 1906, Page 3
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