FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 68, 13 June 1877, Page 3

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

- r ,.: ; , r ;, „ — pV; „;,: ' A terrible dray abciderit tit Grbulburn (N.S.W.) is thus reported by the Southern Argus :— • . Ari/in,quest w,as held at Grbulburn on Mpndayi 6th Aprils on the body of Frances^WiUisV ffliSo diod ffbrn injuries receives while, riding on a dray v The. parti6ula,rsof 4 the :] frig'htful occuprfence were given'by a witness named William JTbbsoit; stated that on Saturday evening,; about 8 o'clock, from sonic-, thing tpld ; Mni; byl>a ; man .servant, he^ went with. him along the Sydney 80adi .... and a'Bbut 60 yards beyond his house h'ef bimd a dray on the. road with a. woman ; fast m, ,the wheeL t She was hanging; with both legs between, the guard-§bn and the wheel: Sb;e had her sen^s, and said, .'" Grooi gentlemen, help'mes' 1 They tried tb get tM whfeel off, .but could nbtj nor could theyifeleasV, deceased: .It, was very dark, and /witness l rhad^ to send hpme for a lamp and an axe. Ultimately they Had ix)' Birpak the linchpin apd bredk! the riaye of; the wheel with the die; They. ' then^todkthe wheel bff. and placed deceased m. ,th^ drdy; tintilthey. Mr Jpbsbn'sispring cart; m which" deceased was sent to -the" Qoulbuni Hospital. HerlegTwas broken,- and from the hip down greatly bruised with the wheel. She made rid statenient. From the state she ;was' m from her injuries, witness; could not well say -whether she was .uiider the influence of" liquor, tHbugh <he should say sh^ "had h;ad something td, .drink;; Next morning he followed the- tracks bf^ the dray back, dnd about three-quarters of. a nlile front his"place nearer G-bulburn f oiind drbps.oJE-blbodpn theroadmeta.l. Found also five or six pieces of bone,- frOmhalf an irich^p two inches lbrig;(bOries.*produced) f nearer to witness'sJiouse found a. purse and some mpney ; also saw that for6o,yards the wlieel had been locked, and the. dray gone on without the wheel revolving,; the. ; wheol must -have been locked by deceased's leg , arid clothes. Theinjufies were thus described by Dr. iJavidspri :— Her . left ieg and the kneejoint were completely smashed up; the • bones protruding to the extent of 18 inches,- •dnd tHe muscles, vessels and nerves, jexposed, torn, and lacerated. Slie was almost pulseless, and exhausted ftpm tH^sHbck. ;