GORED BY A BULL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5353, 9 February 1916, Page 5

GORED BY A BULL

TflE KONINI FATALITY.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Further particulars concerning the feuil attack by a bud on Mr John Ambrose Bradley, dairy tanner, Ql fconim, on Monday evening, were elicited at the inquest held at Hie Uourthoube, yesterday afternoon beiore Air J. B. C. Crewe, yp. Acting-Coroner, and a jury comprising Messrs W - R- Boyens (foreman), P. Davies, S. Bailey and Gregory, . , . m. V7*: Dawson described the shocking **?“■* received by deceased about ■ >t and abdomen, as well as w wot i , leg) aIK ) death was due , and the severity of the mi the Morgue. Upon resuming, Hubert Cfeecil Bradley, the nine year old adopted son of deceased, said he was standing by the farm yard gate ■when h© saw his father leading the Jersey bull by a chain and a rope on the animal’s head. He was carrying the bull hook on one arm. knd was walking along the left side of the bull. Witness was about thirty yards away when he noticed the bull attack his father and toss him over Its head. His father fell to the ground. The bull jumped on his father and gored him. His father never rose nor did lie call out. A itnee* cried out for his mother, who sent him to a neighbour, Mr Sewell, for assistance. Mr William Ryan also arrived shortly after.wards, and they drove the bull off. His lather ertill remained on the ground. It warned like three quarters of an hour from the time the l ull Knocked bi s father down until the anion d nsdriven off. It may have been or.ly * quarter of an hour. The bull belonged to Mr Alpass. and his father was prepring it for the Show. To the Foreman: He said he tned to drive the bull iff « 1 n *t‘ ues He noticed that his father tried to put the hook through the ring on the bull’s nose, but the animal would not let him do so. .•. . Wm. Ryan, farmer, Koniui, said he saw deceased catching the bull on Mr Alpass's property. Witness remarked “be careful. ' Bradley replied “he is powerful, but I hope he will be merciful.” At first the bull seemed disinclined to go, but lie eventually went along. Witness did not see Bradley again till the previous wfitness informed him what had happened 1 and witness proceeded to the scene, about a chain from deceased’s cow shed, with an axe. The bull was standing over Bradley and had just about finished goring him. Mr Sewell was endeavouring to get the animal off with a hay fork, but it made no impression. Witness struck the bull on the head with the axe and the animal bounced back about thirty feet. Bradley was frightfully mutilated. Mr Sewell spoke to Bradley and the latter answered him. Bradley lived about quarter of an hour after the accident, or five minutes after he spoke to Mr Sewell. In answer to a juryman, witness said he did not think the bull was too safe. It chased him once and he never trusted it after that. Milton Alpass said deceased had been employed by him for about eight- or nine years. He had frequently cautioned him to be careful of the bull, and on Sunday and Monday advised him not to interfere with the animal unless he had help, as the bull could not be trusted. The bull, which was about three or four years old. was a purebred Jersey, and was owned by witness. It had been exhibited at various shows and never been beaten. To a Juryman: Witness said his instructions to deceased were not to interfere with the bull. Tf he had not been leading the animal, it would not have charged him. The animal •ould have been driven off Bradley by the dogs. Witness did not know what deceased was leading the bull for. The jury returned a verdict that deceased died of wounds and shock, no blame being attachable to any one. A rider was added that the owner Afr Alpass) be recommended to have the bull destroyed.