A MADDENED HORSE-

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1517, 13 August 1912, Page 5

A MADDENED HORSE-

:—« LADY SEVERELY INJURED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.! Auckland, Au/gust 12. A sensation was caused in Ltfwor Queen Street shortly after 5 o'clock' this evening by a horse bolting from ■ Queea Street Wharf, aiul 6criously injuring, Mrs. Whitcombe, aged Gi years, and Hho mother of the wife of the Rev. Arthur Cowie, and smashing a plate-glass window valued at about ,£2O, The horse in question was being: placed .in a iorso box preparatory to being shipped on board the llaheno, which was lying mt Queen Street Wharf. As it was being; put into tho box it reared and fell back,. Packing itself up it raced along tho wharf, jumped tl\c fenco between the old' and new wharf, and now thoroughly; maddened it dashed towards Queen Street. Just outside Mr. John Turner's hosier's shop, at tho corner of Queen and Quay Streets, Mrs. Whitcombe, accompanied by her grandson, Master Henry Co\uo, aged 11 years, was standing, mid hearing shouts of warning as the affrighted Ixast dashed towards thorn they endeavoured to get dear, but the horse was on tliem before they had a chance of escaping. Mrs. Wiiitcombs was knocked down and tho horse, apparently perfectly mad, da&lied into tho window, causing tlie broken glass to fly, cutting Mie. Wtitcombo severely .011 the head and also badly cutting itself. Master CJowio also received a slight kick on the knee. Mrs. Whitcombe was carried intoja chemist's shop, and after attontion was conveyed homo in nil ■ After breaking the window the horse got up, and, although terribly cut about fcho neck and body, dashed away again, but was stopped in Albert Street without doing any further damage. It was taken to a veterinary surgeon, but its wounds were of too serious a nature to allow of its being Shipped as intended. Flying glass considerablydamaged • tlie contents of tho window.