NOTORIOUS SHEEP KILLER
£60 ON HIS HEAD. r Aftor ranging for years over about twelve square miles of country between t Deepwator and Dundeo River, New j South Wales, killing in that time over s GOO sheep and injuring many more, a , largo blnclc dingo, turning grisly grey J . ivifch ten years of wickedness, and i minus a front paw, which it had left in a trap five years ago, at last forgot I its cunning and placed a hind leg in . another trap. Mr. liacon, of ! Ten-mile, who had been following tlio depredator for seven days, heard its ' "lion-like roaring," as it is described, and with lvjs gun dispatched the dog. Tlio animal's usual meal wag a 401b. ! sheep, * which ho would gorge and re- [ main satisfied for tliree days. He would kill others, and lea'vo them till ho got \ a fat one. For years sheep-owners i tried, single-handed, to catch him, but recently they combined and subscribed \ £60 for his destruction, which now goes 1 to Mr. Bacon.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 8
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170NOTORIOUS SHEEP KILLER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 8
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