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From: "Daryl John Crabtree" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] WEST WIMMERA MAIL
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:40:26 +1000


June 20, 1919
An accident which might have had more serious results happened on Saturday
evening on the road at the South-West corner of the Natimuk show ground. Mr
Heinrich BOEHM, eldest son of Mr and Mrs John BOEHM, of Natimuk Lake, who
was returning from the football match at Noradjuha, was riding along the
road on his hack, when Mr W. MORRISON met him on a motor cycle. Mr BOEHM,
it is alleged, pulled his horse off the track, but the iron foot rest of the
cycle struck the horse above the fetlock, while the handle must also have
struck the same leg, as it was bent upwards. The foot rest was also bent
and the lamp broken. The rider of the horse was thrown off, but escaped
with a sprained ankle. The rider of the cycle was not hurt. The horse
limped to the adjoining fence and on examination it was found that the bone
of the leg had been cleanly broken. An order having been obtained from two
justices of the peace, the animal was shot. Mr BOEHM had purchased the hack
only a fortnight before, and values it at £5.

Daryl Crabtree
Gladstone
Qld
www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/goroke/






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