Thursday 23 August 2018

Shocking accident


Northampton Mercury Friday 29 July 1904

LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. On Friday a shocking accident happened to Henry Harris, groom, in the employ Mr. A. J. Robarts, Tile House, Buckingham. The man lives at the lodge, and he was given a "lift" in Mr. Reynolds's grocery wagon. Whilst the man in charge of the wagon had gone into a house Harris attempted to knock the flies off the horses. The horses started off, and he fell between the spring and the wheel, and one of his legs was so caught that it acted as a brake on the wheel, with the result that before the horses could be stopped the wheel had ground off the whole the fleshy part of the calf the leg, and he presented a shocking appearance.

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