SHOCKING ENCOUNTER WITH AN INFURIATED HORSE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1755, 26 June 1888, Page 3

SHOCKING ENCOUNTER WITH AN INFURIATED HORSE.

' A shocking encounter took place on Ist May, at Downham Market, near Lynn. A laboring man named Bobert Staines, fif ty-aeven years of age, in the. service of Mr Thomas Eobb, of that plac.e, was rolling in a field with a team including an entire horse, which, as it was in the habit of biting, was muzzled. Suddenly it turned round and made an attack upon the shaft horse, and in doing so broke the muzzle. Staines went to quiet the animals, when he was knocked down by the stallion and crushed beneath its feet. It next plucked with its teeth at the fingers of Staines' left , hand, and tore three of them away, i the hand being also much lacerated. It then got the poor fellow's right arm into its mouth, and broke, crushed, and mashed it to a frightful extent just below the elbow, and likewise dislocated Staines' shoulder. Mr Eobb tried to get the horse from Staines, and in no doing he had three of his ribs fractured. A lad likewise rendered assistance and had his arm bitten and the sinews drawn by the same brute. Staines was taken to the Lynn Hospital, but he is scarcely expected to recover. For teu years he has had charge of the horse, which was fifteen years old, and it has now been Bhot.