CHASED BY A BULL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 137, 2 August 1911, Page 3

CHASED BY A BULL.

LADY’S EXCITING EXPERIENCE

An exciting experience which bcfel .Miss Julia Crowe at Wangaloa is recorded by the Kaitaugata correspondent of a Canterbury paper. The young lady had cycled over to Wangaloa, and while walking along the crock that runs through a. property encountered a bull that had strayed from a neighbouring paddock. As soon as the animal caught sight of her it madly set after her, but luckily the creek separated them, and the girl lied along one hank, pursued by the iniunated animal on the other. The girl readied a clump of willows about 20 yards away, where the animal lost sight of her for the time being; but as those did not afford safe refuge, there was nothing loft for her to do, but to make for an empty house sonic considerable distance 'up the rise. The terrified girl got about half-way up before the animal again sighted her, when ho cleared the creek and madly charged across to head her off. Xliss Crowe was by tins time fairly exhausted, and the lust twenty yards to shelter wore done practically on her hands and knees. The door was reached with not half a yard to spare, and as the girl fell in the doorway the mad brute with lowered head dashed past, just missing her heels. Miss Crowe had enough strength left to close and rnib the door, and then fainted. How long she lay there she does hof know, hue when she came to she saw' the bull on guard, a short distance from the house, and there' it remained and kept her a prisoner l- rlntil, liite in the afternoon The house is too far from ■my other place to 'attract attention, and as Miss Crowe did not relish the idea of spending the night' a prisoner in such a lonely place, she took the risk and quietly slipped out the back way, and safely reached the road. It is stated that this is not the first occasion this animal has endangered iif n