HORSE STUMBLES AT FENCE; WOMAN RIDER KILLED.
THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS OCCUR IN TWO MONTHS.
(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON March 20. Mrs Mason, wife of Major James Sidney Mason, of Hillside, Leicester Road, Market Ilarborough, was killed while hunting with Fernic’s Foxhounds yesterday afternoon. Just after clearing a fence at Sheepthorn s Cover, Tur Langton, near Market Harborough, her horse stumbled. Mrs Mason fell from the saddle on to her head and broke, her neck. The hunt was immediately abandoned. At the inquest last night a verdict of accidental death was returned. Mrs Mason was a daughter of Colonel and Mrs Walter Faber, and her mother was joint M.F.H. with Mrs Fernic from 1921 to 1923.
This is the third fatal accident to a woman in the hunting field in two months and the second in eight days. On February 4 Mrs Forse.ll, wife of Mr J. T. Forscll, of Winkadale, Bushy, near Leicester, was killed while out with Fernie’s Hunt. She was found dead, with her neck broken, near the place where the Prince of Wales met with an accident the week before. On Friday week Mrs Edward Greenall, of The Spinney, Melton Mowbrav, wife of the younger son of Sir Gilbert Greenall, while out with the Quorn
Hunt, was thrown from her horse and ! received injuries from which she died on Monday. ANOTHER WOMAN INJURED. Mrs Courage, wife of Captain J. 11. Courage, is in the Royal Bucks Hospital, Aylesbury, suffering from injuries received when following the Whaddon Chase Hounds yesterday. Her horse fell in a field near Aylesbury and rolled on her, and Mrs Courage was picked up unconscious. Last night Mrs C ourage was semi-conscious. While riding to the meet of the Tickham Hounds at Detling, near Maidstone, yesterday, Dr Hamilton Barry*, of Chatham, was thrown and badly injured. Although blood was streaming from a wound in his face, Dr Barry re- , mounted and rode home, a distance of nine miles. He immediately' went to I Vied, and now lies in a critical condi- I tion.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 3
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