BULL IN CANTEEN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 3

BULL IN CANTEEN

A LIVELY AFTERNOON

DID NOT WANT TO DIE Eight women and ten men were having afternoon tea in a Bury, Lancashire, works canteen, 25ft by 10ft, when the door burst open and a black Aberdeen Angus bull chargo ed in, scattered the crockery, broke the forms and tables, and pushed the tea-drinkers .against the wall. I Three women, all employees of Kaysam Syndicate, Ltd., Hackingstreet works, were given treatment for shock and bruises. They were Mrs M. Flintoft, canteen attendant, Mrs H. Crabtree, grader, and Mrs B. Hartley, grader, all of Bury. The bull, the property of the Ministry of Food, had been sent by train from Inverness to Bury abattoir. Here is the timetable of the bull that did not want to die:— , 2.15: Arthur Scholes, aged 15, went to the pen to drive the beast to the slaughterer. “It seemed excited, pushed me to one side, and ran out of the abattoir,” he said. 2.20 to 3.40: Thomas ' Sharrocks, aged 18, of Syke Farm, Edenfield, and Thomas Walsh, aged 16, of Heap Bridge, near Bury, apprentice slaxtghtermen, chased the bull round Bury. Near Holy Trinity Church a wpman and a child were knocked against the wall. 3.40: The bull rushed through a door of Kaysham, Ltd., and ran into the canteep, where women screamed and fell to the ground as it smashed the furniture. Then the bull dropped exhausted into a corner. '. 6.15: Constable Prole arrived with a police revolver and Bandsman H. G. Baker, 19 yegr old Fusilier, was brought frorh Wellington Barracks in a police car with his .303 rifle. P. „C. Prole broke a window with his truncheon: Bandsman Baker climbed a ladder and from Bft, killed the bull with his first shot.