Terrible Tragedy Ten Miles From Antioch When Wm. Hennie is Victim of a Hog.
Animal is Finally Shot.
Hired Man Unable to Save Employer, Finally Sends Bullet into Its Heart.
    Can you imagine a 32-year-old man being killed, being chewed to death by a hog, within 30 miles of Waukegan? Here’s a story which argues for Voliva and his opposition to hogs and his contention that there’s no place in the world for animals of that sort:
[Crystal Lake Herald]
    Will Hennie, who resides on a farm near Richmond, 10 miles west of Antioch, and who is a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Malsch of this city, was attacked and killed by a Chester White boar as he was walking across the pasture in which the boar was kept.
    Immediately after he had eaten dinner Hennie started to cross the pasture where the boar was feeding, a thing he had often done before and which he of course, did not dream of considering as endangering his life, as the animal, a good deal of a pet, had apparently been peaceable enough heretofore, even allowing children to play with him.
    Whether the creature became enraged at something else and in his anger attacked Hennie or whether its innate savageness cropped out just at this particular time will never be known, but the animal must have rushed at the unfortunate man almost as soon as he entered the pasture, for within a short time he had gored and injured Hennie so terribly that death almost immediately released him from his terrible suffering.
    Hennie’s cries for help were heard by the hired man who, seeing he alone could not deal with the boar, called a neighbor, and together the two men beat the creature with clubs in an attempt to get him away from the prey he was literally devouring. Even the cruel blows failed to have any effect on the maddened boar, and it was finally necessary to shoot the creature. When Hennie was at last freed from the animal he was so terribly injured it was well that death soon released him from his suffering. he was disfigured past recognition the animal having fairly chewed his victim to pieces.
    The boar, a show hog worth about $500, weighed 750 pounds.
    Hennie leaves a wife and one child.
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