Singular Accident to a Bullock: On Saturday a man in the employ of Mr. Hopkins, of North Coombe Farm, which is situate about a mile from Bovey Tracey on the Moretonhampstead road, was sent away alone to drive two fat bullocks as far as Highweek, when he expected to meet someone in the employ of Mr. Coldridge, butcher, of Denbury, to whom the bullocks were sold. At Bovey the bullocks became frightened, not having been driven through a town before, and bolted back towards home. On being cornered one of them broke the hedge into Mr. Pinsent’s meadow, and attempted to break through the hedge again into the road. On the further side of the hedge, as is not unusual, there were some roots of trees running along parallel with the hedge, and the bullock’s forelegs slipped between the roots and the hedge. The poor beast slipped, turned a somersault into the road, breaking both forelegs. Here she tumbled and scrambled until she got exhausted, and finally lay in the lower water table. The sight in the road was a most sickly one, hair, blood and pieces of bone, being strewed about in all directions. The man in charge, as may be imagined, was greatly alarmed, and ran home out of breath to inform his master. The poor brute lay suffering for hours. P.C. Slee, as soon as he was made aware of the circumstances, visited the place and gave instructions to have the animal slaughtered before it was removed. Mr. John Mann undertook to put it out of suffering. It was afterwards removed to a slaughterhouse.
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