ATTACKED BY BULL,

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 9

ATTACKED BY BULL,

OLD MAN INJURED. With a gaping leg wound, received when a bull attacked him on his property, six miles from Clybucca, near Kempsey, New South Wales, Robert Gould, 7-i, was forced to ride seven miles while steadily losing blood from bis injury. Gould was alone, rounding up cattle on his run at Broadwater, when the bull, which is known to be very wild, suddenly charged his horse. Could desperately tried to avoid the attack, but the animal crashed into his mount and indicted a long wound, two inches deep, in tiie man’s right leg. The infuriated bull careered off, and Gould, who suffered excruciating agony, slipped from the saddle to the ground. Taking Hie cloth in wiiicli his lunch was wrapped, he bound bis leg before again mounting, and set out for home with Die blood running freely from the wound. Several times on the seven miles’ ride- home, Gould nearly fainted from the intense pain and loss of blood. Late in the afternoon he reached home in a semi-conscious condition. Shortly after 7 o'clock Hie same, night a bull charged a motor car on the road seven miles from Kempsey, near Fredriekton, and buried its horns in the radiator. The occupants of the car were not injured, though the bull suffered lacerations to the head.