April 30, 1904

A WEEK or so before, we briefly recorded an accident to Inspector Yates, resulting in the fracture of one of the small bones of the fore-arm, a considerable number of bad bruises and contusions and a severe shaking-up in general.

The runaway horse was a young and powerful one and was running along the Birmingham Road at an alarming rate.

Insp Yates ran along the horse for a few steps and then made a dash and clutched the reins near the animal's head.

But the horse had got rid of its bit, leaving Insp Yates with little or no power of control.

The maddened horse then dashed up the bank on the west side of the road, the police officer still keeping at its head. The vehicle overturned, cart and inspector being partially under the kicking brute.

The value of the inspector's plucky deed lay in the fact only a few yards in front of the horse, when the sprang to its head, was a woman with a baby in a perambulator, too horrified to make a move. We shudder to think what would have happened to these had Insp Yates been less prompt and daring.