A PLUCKY MAN.
That there is much pluck in the colonial, says the Dunedin Star, we have had ample proof on the. field of battle and a tale has come to hand which shows that there are some civilians no less courageous. William M. Hally, of Upper Waipori, is the object of the tale, which deals with an accident. It appears that Hally was driving a dray laden with wood down a hill near the Waipori when the. brake slipped; , and refused to act. While trying to adjust it Hally slipped, off the waggon and fell in front of one-of the.wheels, which passed.over his legs, breaking the bones in both. The excruciating pain would probably have paralysed an ordinary man, but Hally, having stopped the horses bj 7- calling out to them, laboriously crawled over the ground, maimed and tortured as he was, till -lie reached the dray. He then contrived to mount the shafter, and in this position drove the horses till he reached a rabbiters’ camp. There he was attended to as far as the limited appliances and knowledge of the owners of the camp would allow, and this morning was brought into town. At the hospital it was found that he had a simple fracture of the left leg and a compound fracture of the right.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 93, 4 July 1902, Page 4
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219A PLUCKY MAN. Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 93, 4 July 1902, Page 4
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