Washburn Springs the Scene of Most Repulsive Incident.
Woman Said To Have Killed Sick Porkers, and Then Served Them to Her Boarders Who Summarily Took Flight.
There have been many startling tales given to the public as originating in the foreign settlement-Washburn Springs- but the one which is perhaps the most repulsive and really unbelievable comes from that section today.
It is stated by a woman who lives near the scene of the occurrence that this week she saw one of the most astonishing actions that has ever come to her notice-or that of the average person.
She states that a neighbor recently had two hogs which were taken sick. For days they were to be seen walking about the yard hardly able to stand and the owner feared they were going to die.
Kills and Eats Them.
The neighbor further states that she sat in her house and saw the woman, who runs a boarding house, go into the pig pen and kill the hogs as they lay on the ground too weak and sick to be up and about as well behaved hogs would be.
As the knife was driven into the throats of the swine they were too weak to offer any resistance or even to go through the usual antics that hogs have been stabbed would follow if they were in good health.
The carcasses were then carried into the house. It is declared that the boarding mistress started serving the unhealthy food to her family and the boarders.
It is declared that the boarders, evidently knew that the meat they were being served with was contaminated for they packed up their belongings and a van pulled up a few days after the killing and carted off all of their goods. It is said they left the place because of the serving of the pork.
Neighbors of the locality declared that it is the worst thing of the kind the district has ever seen and they are generally indignant over it.
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