ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 137, 1 July 1901, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

PEll PRESS ASSOCIATION. Napier, Judo 28. A man earned Thomas Stales, who was tiding home \o Oaklegb, n*ar Ohe»t«>rlvp», from the racec, was found dead thin evening on the Fokowhi Road, opposite tbe Manor* creimery A boy named Ja->. Thompson, who was travelling to HfS'inge, found a riderless horse galloping along tbe rcol, and some distance further on came upon a man lying by the roadside ion po:>l of blood. Ha txmrined the body acd concluded tt.e man w .s di ad, so ha rod* to Hastings and gave information to the police. Assistance wa* immediately seat and tbe bedy brought to Hastings where an inquest w II be lield to-mo. - row. Deceased, wl.o was a marriid man with two children, h»d only lift his brother John about 20 chains from where he wa* picked up. The is no information as to how the accident bapp n(d. A jorkey named Hickey, who was injured by being thrown from Wailio in the Final St eplethase, and who it was at fir; t thought was hot much hurt, is cow found to be B»ff.-ring from * severe rupture, and his co/.dition is v.ry critical. Two medical men are in attendance on him, acd bis rtcove.'y i>regarded as doub'ful.