How Local M.P.'s Valuable Filly Met Its Death
WELLINGTON, Dec. 9. Through an extraordinary aecident a valuabie two-year-old filly owned by Mr J. J. Malier, M,P., was killed on tlie owner's farm at Mangaroa yesterday. Tlie filly, which was by Tiderace i'roni Aroma, was found dead with the indication of a bullet wound in the shoulder. An autospy, however, failed tot reveal the presence of a ^bullet thoug'h the wound showed that whatever caused death had just missed one of the ribs and had severed the main artery in the region of the heart. 0 Heavy rain which had washed away the bloodmarks made investigation difficult, but a careful search unravelled the mystery.- Nearby was a fallen macrocarpa braneh on which about shoui der high to the filly was a needle-pomt ed toughened twig which was blood stained for about 11 inches of its length. The inference is that the filly while galloping ran into the braneh and the twig penetrated into the main artery, death probably. being almost instantaneous. The filly, which was jointly owned by Mr Maher and his son, was valueil at between £000 and £700.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 December 1949, Page 6
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