Port
Rowan News. -- About four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
Mrs. Celinda Franklin met with her death on the old homestead, Lot
4, Concession A. South Walsingham, the farm now owned by her
son-in-law, Mr. Louis Oakes, by a toss from an infuriated bull.
The bull was a thoroughbred
Jersey four years old, dehorned and running at large with his herd.
The bull had come up into the
yard to drink, and
Mrs. Franklin, thinking that Mrs. Humphreys
and her daughter who were calling and were
about going, would be afraid of him, went out to
drive him away.
She had a small stick in her
hand with which she
struck him on the head, when he immediately
turned and gave a bunt which sent her several
feet through the air.
He then pressed her viciously
to the ground with
his head, until Rev. Mr. Frost, who had seen the
old lady pass his study, and had advised her to
leave the bull alone, arrived on the scene and succeeded in driving
the mad beast back a few
paces with a club, when the victim bruised and unconscious was borne
to the house.
The bull continued his attack
until Mr. Frost
procured a pitchfork, with which he charged
the bull and forced him to give way.
When the doctor arrived from
Port Rowan he pronounced Mrs. Franklin's case hopeless, as
the bowels were crushed, her brain hurt, and
her whole system severely shocked.
She died a few minutes after
his arrival without
recovered consciousness.
