DRAGGED BY A HORSE.
BOY’S SHOCKING DEATH
Fexeding, April 19
Walter Viles, aged eleven, was riding to school at Waiata this morning on a broken-down racehorse, which he had not ridden before. The hoise bolted, stumbled, and threw the boy, whose toot was held by the stirrup, with the result that he was dragged 400 yards. When picked up it was found that his head was smashed to a pulp. The boy immediately expired. His sister witnessed the whole occuneuce.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1033, 20 April 1912, Page 3
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80DRAGGED BY A HORSE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1033, 20 April 1912, Page 3
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