GORED BY BULL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 769, 16 September 1929, Page 16

GORED BY BULL

OTOROHANGA FATALITY EVIDENCE AT INQUEST From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. The inquest concerning the death of Errol Rees Milne, aged 28, who died from injuries received through being gored by a bull on a farm at Otorohanga, was held by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on Saturday. Dr. H. C. Barrett, of the Waikato Hospital staff, described Mr. Milne’s injuries as being of a very severe nature. The cause of death, he said, was shock and heart failure, due to the nearness of a wound to the heart. A farm hand, Edward John Hoban, said he rushed at the bull with a hay knife and succeeded in driving the animal off. Several other neighbours assisted in keeping the bull away until the doctor arrived, ten minutes later. Constable Fry said the bull in question had previously shown signs of aggressiveness, and was regarded as dangerous. The coroner remarked that the case was one of those incidents which occurred from time to time in a farming community, and was the result of that familiarity which bred contempt of danger. It was well to remember that the Jersey bull was a very dangerous animal.