ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
[Per Press association.] AUCKLAND, August 12. A sensation was caused in Lower Queen Street shortly after five o clock this evening by a horse bolting _f i oni the Queen Street wharf and seriously injuring Mrs Whitcombe, aged sixtyfour years, and smashing a plate-glass window valued at about- £2O. Ill© horse was being placed in a horse-box preparatory to being shipped on board the Maheno. It reared and fell back. Picking itself up, it ran along the wharf, jumped a fence, and dashed towards Queen Street. Just outside Mr John Turner's hosier's shop, at the corner of Queen and Quay Streets, Mrs Whitcombe, accompanied by her grandson, Master Henry Cowie, aged eleven years, was standing. She endeavoured to get clear, but Mrs Whitcombe was knocked down and the liofse dashed into the window, causing broken glass to fly, cutting Mrs Whitcombe severely on the head and also badly cutting itself. Master CoWie received a slight kick on the knee.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10538, 13 August 1912, Page 1
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162ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Star (Christchurch), Issue 10538, 13 August 1912, Page 1
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