The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

A FARMER KILLED BY A BOAR.

At Swavesey, in Cambridgeshire, on Tuesday
last, ➢lr. James Williams, a native of that place,

wet his death under melancholy and, taken in rela-
tion to foregone, somewhat singular circumstances.
Williams, who was at the period of his death about

66 years of age, carried on the combined businesss
of farmer, hay factor, and butcher, and was in the
habit of attending Cambridge market in these c.ipa-
cities. On Tuesday afternoon a Lumber of swine
escaped from a yard to which he intended to confine
them, one of them a boar. Deceased rushed to turn
them back, whe❑ the boar suldenly attacked him,
threw him down and gored him. The animal tore
open the thigh of deceased, severing the main arte-
ries thereabouts, and inflicted other injuries. A
man near at hand hastened to Mr. Williarni's assist-
ance, and raised him on his knee ; but, according
to his statement, Mr. Williams breathed only once,
and then died.

An inquest was held yeeerday afternoon, beforo
Mr. Barlow, coroner for the county, and, the above
facts being proved, a verdict in accordance with
them was returned.

To regret at Mr Williams's untimely end much
excitement is added from the fact that he is
the same man who so providentially recovered
from a murderous attack made upon him on the
26th of December last. Williams on that day
was on his way home in his hay cart from Cam-
bridge to Swavesey when he was attacked, evidently
by some person who had been riding with him,
robbed, and left for dead. With its master in
this state the.horse found its way into S wavesey, and
there Williams was extricated. It was found that

Williams had been robbed of the proceeds of some hay
he had sold in Cambridge (about five pounds'
worth), his pockets being turned inside out : but,
what was worse, his skull was fractured in two
places, in one so extensively that the covering
of the brain might be seen. In a state of insen-
sibility, hovering as it were on the confines of life
and death, Williams lingered for many weeks, and
then, to the surprise even of his medical attendants,
a good constitution carried him through. He be-
gan to mend, and eventually mended so well and
recovered so entirely that he was able to prosecute
his assailant to conviction at the next March assizes.
During Williams's illness the most untiring and
unremitting exertims had been made by the police
under Mr. Deputy Chief Constable Stretten, and
the result was the apprehension of one Robert
Low, a pensioner, about 67 years of age. Wil-
liams could only swear to the attire of his assailant,
but did swear particularly not only to the presence
of some odd buttons, but one, a most remarkable
one, upon Low's jacket. This fact excited
much attention at the time amongst the medical
faculty as bearing upon the question of the im-
pression made upon the mind and memory of
a man subjected to attacks such as that made upon
Williams. Williams could recollect nothing but
the peculiarities of the jacket, but added that
" these had been before his mind night and day
ever since." He deszribed them before he saw
Low's jacket, and on the latter being produced at
a sitting before the magistrates at once exclaimed,
" That's the one." The police, however, had dis-
covered other damaging circumstances which left
no doubt of Low's guilt, and he was sentenced to
penal servitude for life by Mr. Baron Bramwell.
That the old gentleman who had escaped with his
life from such an attack made upon him as that of
Low's should at last fall a victim to an accident by
the attack of a boar has excited deep commisera-
tion for his large family. There can be little doubt,
however, that Low's dastardly attack had really a
deep effect in undermining Williams's strength both
of mind and body, and 53 prevented his effectually
warding off the assault of the boar. The latter has
since been destroyel.

A committee, consisting of Lord Doneraile, Lord
Fermoy, and other gentlemen, has been formed to carry
on the movement in favour of what is called a "Cork
Derby." The project of establishing this race has met
with general favour in Ireland, and an offer has been made
of a suitable four-mile course at Mallow, with one mile and
a quarter "as straight and smooth as a piece of glass."
THE HERRING FISHERY ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST.
—The herring fishery on this coast has been very produc-
tive during the last few days. Three special trains of
those fish arrived in London this morning from Scar-
borough, Whitby, Filey, &c. ; large consignments also
arrive at the provincial markets. The fishery is likely to
continue good as long as the weather remains favourable,
as the fishennon report the "schools" being immense and
the quality superior.