Dennis Vincent SLATTERY
1968

The Geneva Times
Geneva, N. Y. 14456 Thursday, October 24, 1968

Shot by lawmen-
Bull on rampage injures two

CANANDAIGUA — A black bull had almost nine hours of freedom yesterday after it escaped from the Finger Lakes Livestock Market on Rt. 5-20 and picked up a trucker with its horns and tossed him in the air.

Later shot by Paul Zimmerman, Rt. 5-20, the bull, which was a cross between a Brahma and an Angus, was found to weigh 1,000 pounds.

Before it was shot and killed, it sent two men to the hospital and caused a search by the Ontario County Sheriffs Department and State Police, which ended shortly after 6 p m yesterday. An airplane took part in the hunt.

The property of Richard Morris, Naples RD, the bull escaped as it was being unloaded at the livestock market.

This was about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday. The bull was being unloaded into a tagging chute when the half-ton monster jumped the rails into the center pen.

Dennis Slattery, 67, of 202 Lawrence St., Penn Yan, ran to close the south gate hut was pinned behind the gate by the bull.

Ralph Skellett, 78, Clifton Springs RD 2, a trucker, then ran to Slattery's assistance. The bull, leaving Slattery, turned its attention to the elderly trucker.

The bull picked Skellett up with its horns and tossed him up in the air and then attacked him as he fell.

Slattery yelled to the owner to open the outer gate to let the bull into the pasture but the animal jumped the fence and headed into the woods, to the east.

Skellett, who took the worst beating, is reported in satisfactory condition today at Thompson Memorisl Hospital. He suffered a laceration of the right eye brow, left tog cuts, contusions of the back, abdomen and legs and a possible fractured left tog, as well as multiple body bruises.

Slattery was treated for chest injuries and released.

Livestock officials summoned the lawmen, noting that the bull was a very dangerous animal and must be caught or killed.

They were assisted by Edward Gulivan who flew his private plane over the area looking for the animal.

Shortly after 6 p.m. Mr. Zimmerman saw the bull coming towards his barn and he killed it.



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