A Horrible Fate.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 70, 27 February 1883, Page 2

A Horrible Fate.

I It ia impossible to imaging a more horrible occurrence. tßan--- i thab which. ; resulted (says the Daily Chronicle) ia , the death of Wijtiam Barker, a .'niaa j 60 years of 'age.Ysihq resided at Runcom^ v ; ffe was /employed. oy r a tanner, "aiid^ seems to have ascended to a loft withda'ti , !i having taken any care as jto " his^' ftpersodal safety. At all events, 1 ; he l^ was perched m such a very datijjefous I '.^ position that when the wind, suddenly', closed a door near him, that was suffic^". ' to make ' him lose His balance- ahot [' pitch him headlong into a pigstye j beneath . He musfc haye been stunned bjr theconcussion, for he dtd 1 not lat „. once rise, and fire pigV thai irere there/ with strange ferocity, rushed upoß'Tfehe J l* prostrate and helpless 'man ' and began. " to devour him. Th9j were enofag'ed^ 1 io th^ir revolting attack when the moans of poor Barker; attracted the atte^fcioii, of his own son. With great flinidufty' '/' were the hrutes 'beaten back, and 'tha : ! shockingly - mutilated ,, man rescued^ } Such savage attacks 'haye 1 occurred before, but they have been confined to a single sow } and have hitherto -heen - supposed to indicate exceptional .ferocity. In this instance", howeVer, these animals, moved by a common impulse, began to tear and devour their' victim.