ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1933, Page 3

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES

DRAGGED BY HORSE.

ROPE TIED ROUND WAIST. NEW PLYMOUTH, February 21. An eight-year-old boy suffered fatal injuries near Inglewood when the horse lie was leading bolted and dragged him for some distance. ' The little bo>, James Wilfred McEwan, the adopted son of Mr and Mrs A. T. McEwan, ot Piakau, received injuries to his bead and body from which he subsequently died in the New Plymouth Hospital. The accident occurred on the farm of the body’s father. About 6 p.m., Mr McEwen, who had been using a sledge with two horses, told the hoy to take the animals to a paddock at the back of the farm, and about half a mile from the house. Mounted on the horse which he usually rode, the boy took one sledge horse on a lead while the other followed free. He ws accompanied by his sister, who opened a. gate for him. At a slignt decline, the loose horse galloped past the boy, and the horse he was leading took fright and bolted. The boy had a lead of rope knotted round his waist, and he was pulled from his noise and dragged and kicked. The lead was only about two yards long. The lad received concussion of tlie°brain and extensive bruises. The boy’s sister, who was a witness of the accident, returned to the house and told her father. Mr McEwan found the boy unconscious with the rope still knotted about his waist. He was taken to the New Plymouth Hospital, where be died yesterday morning.

THROWN FROM PONY. LITTLE GIRL’S ARM BROKEN. TE AROHA, February 21. A little girl, Gladys Nicol, aged live years, daughter of Mr and Mrs A. 'l. Nicol, of Elstow, broke her left arm above the wrist when she fell from, a. pony yesterday. She had been despatched from the house to a shed with a. bottle of ginger beer for her father. The jogging about on the pony’s back caused the cork to fly off with an explosion that frightened the animal into a gallop and the little one was thrown off.