SHOCKING FATALITY.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 101, 8 May 1883, Page 2

SHOCKING FATALITY.

« ; Boy Thrown From a Horse. His Body Terribly Mutilated. We regret to have to chronicle a most frightful accident, which happened in town about half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and which resulted fatally. In fact it could not possibly have ended otherwise, as it was probably the most horrible accident that has ever£ happened in this district. A little boyp. between nine and ten years, of. age, popularly known as Willie Salisbury, but whose proper 'fiftine is William Thomas Weller, and, who has been, from his infancy. the : adopted son olMr and Mrs Salisbury, residing at corner of Denbigh and North-streets, was riding a horse along Cambden-streefr, when by some means, he was thrown from tfie saddle, and, hanging by one of his feet from the stirrup, whs- dragged a considerable distance. The horse galloped and plunged to such an extent, that the poor little sufferer when.found lying some distance below the railway crossing was smashed and mangled in a manner .that almost baffles description. The body was literally in pieces, being partly dismembered and disembowelled, the broken parts only hanging together by fragments of skin. Each leg was broken in two, the head smashed in a frightful, manner, while the features were entirely obliterated. In tact the whole body presented one ot the most ghastly spectacles that can possibly be imagined. From information received it appears that the poor little fellow was thrown somewhere near Mr Goodbehere's corner, as some person saw his hat and coat lying on the road c ose by there, from whence he was dragged past the railway as Miss Travena saw him hanging to the horse as it galloped past their house, a short distance below which the body became disentangled and was' thrown into the water-table by the side of the road. The horse then continued its career till it came to the bottom of Campden street, and pulled up by the side -of another' one; belonging 'to Mr James Jenkins, assistant . Primitive Minister, which was -standing' af We gate of Mr -Lucas.- .; The farmer immediately brought the horse along £he street thinking he might .possibly--nnd'-itß_rider, and while. doing. so, discovered Lthe .nd&ngled remains of thejittie^b^yvand at once. -set off for. the, police- „The. gody^wg* in the meantime" carried' home. *^The~ affair caused quite a sensation . in. toKftyla&t ni'glrV and : much Mpa#y l ?s/felf fdr the poor lad's foster $rehtsi%hd tfirel amobg the oldest 'Feilding* settlers,'' arid who, having no family, looked upon \ahd>loyed him as their own child.