FARMER’S DEATH.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 7 April 1933, Page 3

FARMER’S DEATH.

FATAL KICK FROM A HORSE. MASTERTON, Last night. A well-known district farmer, Mr Robert Oliver Smith, of Earlyhurst, aged 64 years, was found dead this afternoon, apparently as the result of having been kicked and dragged by a horse he was breaking in. There were no eye-witnesses of the accident. Mrs Smith saw her husband yard an unbroken yearling and put a longrope round its neck, preparatory to schooling it, but she then returned to the house. On Mr Smith’s failing to come in to lunch she investigated and found the gate of the yard broken down. Some distance down the path leading from the yard she found her husband’s body, and in a gully the horse still with the rope round its neck. Apparently Mr Smith had been kicked on the head and had then become entangled in the rope and had been dragged by the animal.