ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. INJURED ON RACECOURSE.
- fBT TELBG3IAPII— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, 18th April. At the Beaumont (Central Otago) races yesterday a horse named Picric Gur ran through the crowd while doing the preliminary for the Molyneaux Hack -Handicap. He jumped or scrambled through a barb wire fence- and was pulled ap half a mile away. A man named John Macpherson was knocked down, suffering concussion ot the brain, and possibly a fractured skull. He was still unconscious this morning. An elderly man named Charles Leatham, formerly a, well-known stevedore, died suddenly at the Sailor's Rest yesterday. He was watching a game of dominoes and was taken suddenly ill, vomiting blood. Dr. Henry was* sent for and was quickly in attendance, but pronounced life to bo extinct. He had been suffering from heart trouble and was five weeks ago discharged from the Hospital, wher-e ho had been for sonio time under treatment. In alighting from a Iramcar in Lamb-ton-quay last evening Mrs. P. Morris, a native, who was returning to Picton from Waikanae, slipped and fell on her hoa<l. Siie was attended by Dr. Henry, who found her to be suffering from slight concussion of the brain. She was subsequently removed to her lodgings in Moles-worth-street,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 91, 19 April 1911, Page 2
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205ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. INJURED ON RACECOURSE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 91, 19 April 1911, Page 2
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