SACRED BULL CHASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3556, 22 June 1912, Page 3

SACRED BULL CHASE.

UNUSUAL LONDON STREET

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POLICEMAN’S PLUCKY ACT

The unusual spectacle of a sacred Indian bull careering madly through the London streets was witnessed near Euston Station last month. Incidentally, an act of great courage and skil’ was performed by a policeman named Allen, of the Y Division, she stopped it by taking it by the horns and throwing ‘it off its feet. The animal was no larger than a donkey, but exceedingly strong, and had, of course, a. little hump on its back. Its history, so far as it can be gathered, is a sad one. He is one 01 a pair which, brought over for exhibition purposes, and never taken away, had ultimately to be sold at Aldridge's to defray expenses. Its brother in affliction was brought by » circus proprietor. This animal was on the way to Watford, where his new 1 master carries on business as a jobmaster. The bull walked quietly enough from St. Martin's Lane to Euston. There the drover left it in charge of another man while he went to get his ticket. When he came back there was no bull to be seen. ' ••The bull was quiet enough,’’ said Mr. Horace King, who witnessed the incident, “until the man tried to pass the end of the halter through the ring in its nose, which was too small for the rope to go through.” “This seemed to vex the bull, which turned and dashed out of the station, with the man in charge hanging on to its tail. It ran uown Drummond Street and into Seymour Street, then turned down Lancing Street, and ran along into Churchway and so down to Euston Road, scattering people right and left.” “Just by the New Women's Hospital a policeman seized it by the horns, and twisted it off its feet, and brought it to the ground. It was a plucky thing to do.” “They tied it to the railings until the drover came up. He tried to take it by the horns, too, but one of them caught him iu the forehead, and cut it right across.” The sacred bull was ultimately put in a railway truck for Watford.