ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10137, 7 November 1910, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, Last Night.

A man named Henry Radford was severely injured in McCormick's stahles on Saturday afternoon. He was engaged in harnessing a young horse, which was just being broken in, when the animal lashed out with both hind feet and caught Radford in the pit of the stomach. He was removed to the hospital, where he now lies m a condition so critical that he is not expected to live. CHRISTCHURuH, Last Night.

The jockey Murtagh, the rider of Xavier in the first race yesterday, who sustained concussion of the brain consequent on the horse falling, was removed to the Hospital, where he still remains unconscious. He is, however, not considered to be in a dangerous condition. PALMERSTON N., Last Night.

Constable McCorrnack, who is stationed at Palmerston ',North, died at the Hospital on Saturday, as the result of a fractured skull, incurred in falling backwards oft" the footpath in Main street on Thursday. McCorrnack had been thirty years in the force, having served therein during the Maori disturbances. He was a well-known figure on the Palmerston railway station, where he vas daily on duty. Deceased was a married man.

John Colegrove Hayes, aged 34 years, a labourer, of Shannon, and a married man with a family, wai badly injured through a fall from a horse on Saturday, and lies in a precarious condition at a private hospital. He is suffering from a fracture of the base of the skull. This is the third case of a similar injury at Palmerston in three days.