LADY’S FEARFUL FATE.
SHOCKING TRAP ACCIDENT. LPER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, August 30. An accident occurred on the Leith Valley Road, three or four miles from Dunedin, this afternoon, whereby Mrs. C. B. M. Branson, licensee of Branson’s Hotel, was killed and her son severely injured. The two had been for a drive, and while returning the son got out to exit some flax, leaving the reins with liis mother. While he was out of the trap the horse bolted, and though he managed to clamber over the back of the trap, the horse ran over the edge of a bank into a creek.
Mrs. Branson had her neck broken, and was dead when taken to the hospital. Her son is unconscious, but is expected to recover.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3310, 31 August 1911, Page 5
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126LADY’S FEARFUL FATE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3310, 31 August 1911, Page 5
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