TROOP-HORSES STAMPEDE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 6

TROOP-HORSES STAMPEDE

TROOPER BADLY INJURED. As some thirty odd horses were being led up through New-torn by some troopers from the camp at Lyall Bay yesterday, they took fright from a pass, ing motor bicycle, and stampeded. Aβ the result of the wild rush Trooper Henry Ingrain, who was leading three horses, was knocked off liis mouut,' and trampled upon. His injuries necessitated his removal to the Hospital, where ho was found to be somewhat badly hurt about the.head.and body. Ingram is a single man, 39 years of age. One of tbe horses was injured and had to be shot.

Police Sergeant John Figg, in acknowledging a presentation from bis comrades of the Dover Police Force on retirement, denied that ill-luck attached to the number of thirteen. Ho said he was one of a family of thirteen, he started work at thirteen; was thirteen, years in bis first employment; joined the Dover Police on April 13, when he was thrice thirteen years; and his family number thirteen. ' A Paris beggar, who was thought te bo penniless, has just died, leaving a fortune behind him. An old man nsm. Ed Etienno Rollin, who used to go about the streets offering a fow vegetables for sale, and was known as "Father Leek,' , died of hunger and cold in a garret in the Rue de Montigny. When the police examined his garret, they found £1200 in notes and gold in his mattress.