KILLED BY A BULL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21067, 29 December 1931, Page 10

KILLED BY A BULL.

FIGHT FOR FIVE HOURS. VICTIM'S VIVID STORY. ANIMAL'S AMAZING FEROCITY. [from oun own cornesponn knt.] MELBOURNE. Dec. 21. Tlip s'ory of liow lie wns for five liours tossed and gored by an infuriated bull was told by Charles Heel or Pearl before lie died in (be hospital at Launceston, Tasmania. Ho was on a fishing expedition with his wife and when lie did not return to her at four o'clock in the afternoon she beciimo anxious and a search party was organised. • it was not until nine o'clock in the evening thai Mr. Pearl was discovered lying between two logs in an unconscious condition. JI o had been badly gored by a bull that had been in the paddock through which ran tho river in which he had been fishing. It was during a period of consciousness in hospital, just before he died, that he was able tp give a vivid description of the attack that was made upon him. Mr. Pearl said (hat when he was approaching the river bank he. passod the bull, which was quietly grazing in the paddock. The bull gave no sign that it resented the presence of anybody. He was sitting on the bank of the river when suddenly, without any warning, the ani-

riifil rushed him from behind and threw him over its head. Quickly regaining his feet, Mr. Pearl grappled with the animal, but ho was again knocked down. Rushing him before lie had time to regain his foot, the bull again tossedhim. Although bruised and shaken, Mr. Pearl attempted to ward off the animal's rushes for nearly ail hour and a-half, during which time the bull badly mauled him. While lie was on the ground the bull continued to attack the man with increasing ferocity and did so on and off for five hours. There were times when the animal left his victim and went back to continue grazing. Then suddenly it would rush again at its victim until finally it tossed Mr. Pearl between two logs, where he was out of reach. It then began to tear up the ground, during which operation -Mr. Pearl's body was covered with the earth. He was in that position when he was found by the search party. Mr. Pearl said that during tho whole of his terrible experience he was conscious and was able to remember quite clearly everything that happened. His injuries were such that a complete examination was impracticable. A tragic feature of the case was that Mr. Pearl, although out of sight of the car in which his wife was sitting waiting for his return, was yet within hearing distance, but was unable to make his wife hear his cries for help, as she is deaf.