FATAL ACCIDENT AT OAMARU.

Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

FATAL ACCIDENT AT OAMARU.

An inquest was held at Oamaru on Monday touching the death of Thomas Thomson the day before. From the evidence, as reported in the 'North Otago Times.’ it would appear that deceased, in company with Messrs Archibald M'Fadgen and Alex. M'Millan, was returning from a ride to the Waitaki bridge on Monday afternoon about five o’clock. Thev had been imbibing at the different hotels on the road, and deceased was the worse for liquor. When sober, he had the reputation being a poor horseman. Coming down the main road to the town he set his horse into a gallop, and from the manner in which he rolled in the saddle M'Millan, in giving evidence, said be was more than once afraid deceased would fall off. When Thomson arrived at the town boundary, his horse, instead of going straight on to town, made a sudden turn to the left, it having been used to go to a paddock in that direction. Deceased lost his balance and fell off, striking the ground with the right side of his head. When the other two men got up to him they found him insensible, and with the exception of a minute or two when they bathed his head and chest with water, he never recovered consciousness. He was taken to his residence, and died on Tuesday morning at four o'clock. He was thirty-six years of age, a carpenter bytrade, and a native of Glaswow.