Fatal Accident at Gisborne.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12124, 22 March 1907, Page 5

Fatal Accident at Gisborne.

GISBORNB, March 21.

Mr Sharp, a traveller for the Phoenix Company, died in the Hospital to-night from fracture of the skull, through a collision between the horse he was riding and a horse and buggy. No further particulars are obtainable to-night. GISBORNE, March 22. A well-known commercial traveller, M» Andrew Sharp, representing the Phoenix Corny., Dunedin, met with a fatal accident at 6 o'clock >^»8t evening. He had been visiting a-'ctnmtry customer, riding 1 rather a high-spirited horse, which, -when he mounted, bolteft T^ith him. Approaching a trap going in the same direction the runaway swerved,, and Sharp cams off on his' head, striking the wheel «f a> vehicle violently, fracturing the base of his skull. He was removed to the hospit* al and succumbed at^fcpjikfc, Sbsjqp, ; itftis uqdetstDodfiSJ » married man," his wife an* , family? residing at Dunedin. j a jffe was ** -.hi* second" trirt to 4ifborj»Si' v - v O %>