KILLED BY TAME DEER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8166, 25 June 1906, Page 7

KILLED BY TAME DEER.

Visitors to Grsenwioh Park are bewildered at an extraordinary occurrence, une of the very tame deec in the park having knooked down and 'injured a man, who has since died, Mr George Sadler, 46, a hairdresser t)f Oavlert Road, Bast Greenwich, was walking along the pathway in the middle of the park near Queen Elizabeth's Oak. It was a beautiful sprincc day, and Mr Sadler ■walked slowly, reading a newspaper which he hold spread out in front of him. Exaotly what happened i<? not known but a workman about twenty yards away from Mr Sadler heard him cry out, and saw him on the ground with his hands clutching the horns of a deer, on which waa impaled the newspaper. The workman ran to Mr Sadler's assistance, and drovetbedeer Bway. A park keeper came up and offered to take Mr -Sadler to the hospital, but lie said ie was only bruised. His story was that the deer had suddenly attacked him without provocation, lie said he would go home, and walked out of the park. Later in the day he waa found in h state of collapse in Greenwich, and was removed to the Seamen's Hospital, where he died ■after three hours. It is probable that Mr Sadler was the innocent victim of the general but strictly forbidden practioe on the part of the -public of feeding the deer. The animals are acoustomed to seeing people ■carrying food wrapped in paper, and the superintendent conjeoturea that the deer which knooked Mr Sadler down came up to him on account of the newspaper whioh he was carrying, and which prevented him see Jag the animal.