Narragansett Herald

The Man Eater of the Period Shot.—A STALLion that would puzzle Dan Hall, having killed three Men, and disfigured twenty-one others.

In Middletown, New York, last Saturday, the Hambletonian STALLion Risingham, one of the finest bred horses in Orange county, was killed by his owner, Dr. J. A. Schultz, of that place.

This horse was twenty-one years old. An offer of $7,000 was once refused for him. At two years of age he was considered the coming successor of Old Hambletonian, his sire. Nineteen years ago, however, he began to exhibit signs of viciousness that increased as he grew older. Finally he became almost entirely unmanageable, and since then he has been known as the "man-eater." He has killed three men, and wounded, crippled and disfigured twenty others. For fourteen years no one dared to put him to a wagon until a short time ago, Dr. Schultz, who had owned him but a short time, with the aid of several men, got him in harness and to a wagon, and tried to drive him. It was a dear experiment. The stallion broke everything to pieces, and the doctor himself was saved by the merest chance. Many of the leading horse-trainers of the country had tried their skill at subduing him. He conquered them all, and nearly killed one of them. One of his latest exploits was the seizing of a negro groom who had undertaken to keep him, tearing off the man's right cheek and destroying the eye, and stripping the flesh from his right arm. The groom became blind and paralyzed. The three men who preceded the negro as grooms, all narrowly escaped with their lives. One lost an ear, another had three fingers and a thumb taken off, the third left his arm from the elbow in the jaws of the horse.

It became impossible to get a groom for the stallion. No one knew at what moment the brute would attack him. Dr. Schultz at last made up his mind that Risingham was chronically insane and concluded to kill him before he claimed another victim.

Risingham stood in his stall glaring over the manger at the spectators in the stable to see the man-eater die. Five large pistol balls were shot into his head, directly between his eyes. They failed to bring him down, and, uttering the fiercest of neighs, he made frantic efforts to get over the manger among the bystanders. As a man drew the attention of the horse away, Dr. Schultz, by a skilful thrust of a long knife, severed his jugular vein, and the blood spurted out in a large stream.

For a long time Risingham stood up under the great flow of blood, relaxing no effort to get at the men. At length he settled to the floor, but to the last maintained his fierce disposition. The last movement he made was to attempt to seize Dr. Schultz with his teeth, the doctor having gone into the stall. Horsemen say that but for the temper of this horse, he would have been worth $30,000. His skeleton is to be set up in Dr. Schultz's office.