Published in The Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on 05/15/1903.
Armed with a pitchfork a farmer’s wife holds animal at bay.
    Armed with a pitchfork, Mrs. James Morton, a farmer’s plucky wife, living near Flanders, N. J., for nearly an hour kept at bay a vicious bull that had attacked and nearly killed her husband. Two of the farmer’s children gave the alarm and friends and neighbors rushed to the field and drove the bull away. While entertaining visitors Mrs. Morton became uneasy over the long absence of her husband, who had gone out to care for his stock.
    She heard a dehorned bull, noted for its vicious temper, bellowing, and on running to the field, she saw her husband lying unconscious on the ground, while the bull stood over him.
    Flourishing a pitchfork, the farmer’s wife ran forward and drove the prongs four inches into the bull’s side. As the animal still continued its attack on her husband, Mrs. Morton again and again jabbed the sharp fork into it until the animal turned and rushed at her.
    With a blow on the head Mrs. Morton made the bull pause. She was still standing guard, pitchfork in hand, when, an hour later, the rescuers, summoned by the children, arrived. Mr. Moton was carried to the house, where it was found that several of his ribs were broken. He also was severely injured about the head and chest.
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