Former Sheriff F.F. Cohoon, County Representative for Pasquotank in the last General Assembly, is 72 years old, but he believes he got over the fence as quickly Friday as could any young man in the County. And that five-foot fence, Mr. Cohoon believes saved his life.
Mr. Cohoon, who weighs something like 200 pounds, went over the fence by a clear vault, but he did not make the jump unassisted. He was making for the fence with an angry Guernsey bull after him, and just as he put his hands on the fence the bull caught him. The first blow knocked the former sheriff off his feet but he continued to hold the top board of the fence. And then the bull caught his victim just back of the left hip and lifted him neatly over the barrier and out of the way of further harm.
Besides being a bit stiff Saturday morning, Mr. Cohoon showed no outward sign of his narrow escape. His most painful injuries were received on his right hp and on the right side of his head as he struck the ground. This particular Guernsey’s horns were sawed off when he was a yearling and though they grew out again they turned back like a ram’s so that the animal could not gore a victim. Else Mr. Cohoon’s injuries might have been more serious.
Mr. Cohoon says this is the second time he has had a narrow escape from an angry bull, the former occasion occurring about 16 years ago. At that time two ribs were broken by the impact of the bull’s charge and there was an ugly scalp wound when Mr. Cohoon’s head struck the rafters of the low roofed stable in which he was attacked.
From the front page of The Tri-City Daily Gazette, Saturday, August 4, 1923
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