KILLED BY BULL

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1929, Page 6

KILLED BY BULL

FARMER MANGLED. • [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.J AUCKLAND, July 10. Air John Clayton linnmcr, aged 57 years, a prominent public man, and a highly esteemed resident of the Heic..s..de district, died at the Auckland Hospital to-night, shortly after being admitted, with terrible injuries, through being gored over 25 times by a bull on Ins farm at Te Pua. He was caught by the annual in the centre of a twenty-acre paddock, and was tossed time and time again, ami caught on the bull’s horns, before the eyes of nis horriiied neighbours, who finally blinded tiie bull, with a shot from a shot gun. The beast was a pur bred. Shorthorn, weighing over half a ton, and its horns had a spread of nearly three feet.

Rimmer was inspecting stock on the farm after an absence, and when he was followed by the bull, he waved it away several times with his arm. Suddenly it became infuriated, and rushed him. He dodged it once, but then it turned suddenly and knocked him down, trampling on him, and then tossing and goring him. Mr A. J. Skelton,' a neighbouring farmer, ran over from his farm with a pitchfork- with which lie tried to keep the animal from its victim. Meanwhile his wife rang up another neighbour, who arrived with a shotgun and blinded the bull just as it was about to attack Skelton.