FARMER KILLED.
DRAGGED BY HORSE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sunday. Fatal injuries were received by Mr Thomas Edward Portis, aged 26, through being dragged by a horse which he was unharnessing from a set of discs on Saturday evening. Mr Portis was a son of Mr Thomas Portis, of Airedale, a well-known North Otago Jersey breeder. He had been discing with a fourhqrse team and had uncoupled the horses when Ids foot caught in a chain. The horse, taking fright, dragged him about 15 chains. He did not regain consciousness and died soon atfer. At the inquest to-day medical evidence was to the effect that death was due to laceration qf the brain. The coroner returned a verdict accordingly, adding that the injuries were received through being accidentally dragged by a horse.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19664, 26 August 1935, Page 8
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