Arizona republican., 1910-12-10
HORSE KILLS
 HIS MASTER Poor Farm Emp|oye Dies as
 Result of Kick BODY DRAGGED BY ANIMAL Lives Only a Short Time After He Is Found, Gov cred with Blood and Skull Crushed-Leaves Sweet heart and Parents.
BODY DRAGGED BY ANIMAL

A compound fracture of the skull over his left eye, his left arm broken and his body covered with blood, H. O.
 Clodfeldter. an employe at the coun
 ty poorfarm, was found yesterday morning at 530, lying under the nose of horse attached to his wrist by a halter rope and which had evidently first kicked him in the head. then dragged his prostrate form more than hundred feet. Clodfeldter died less than an hour later. without regaining consciousness.
 Shortly after o'clock Clodfeldter arose and went out into the field to catch the two horses he was using to blow grain land. A few minutes later the foreman of the poor farm. Joe Cobb. followed to catch his own team. Cobb saw Clodfeldter lying up against fence, while over him quietly stood one of his horses.
 Running to Clodfeldter's side. Cobb saw that he was seriously hurt and called the resident physician. The in jured man was placed on a stretcher and taken to the hospital building. pr. H. A. Hughes, superintendent of the poor farm, was telephoned for and he immediately responded, accompanied by pr. l.. D. Dameron.
 pr. Hughes said last night that when he saw Clodfeldter he knew that he was dying. There was just one chance in a million for him if the pressure onI his brain was removed Part of the skull had been crushed in over the left eye and was pressing against the brain.
 hn diately by the physicians. but Clod- feldter died few minutes after it was finished. Not once did he exhibit d sign of returning consciousness. His body was removed to the morgue of Moore & Mcclellan.
 A detailed examination of the spot where Clodfeldter was killed showed plainly that he had been killed by the horse. How the halter strap happened to be looped around his wrist is a mys- tery but it is believed that the dead man had caught the one horse and tied it to the fence. merely dropping a loop over a post, while he tried to catch the other one. Failing in that he returned to the first horse. lifted the loop from the post and carelessly allowed it to slip over his wrist
 Then the horse either whirled and kicked him on the head or jerked him against post. His skull could have been crushed in either way. Dr Hughes is convinced that it was the first blow that killed him.
 Clodfeldter immediately fell to earth and the horse became frightened, drag 1 ging him some little distance While ! the body was being dragged the left l arm was broken.
 Much of this is conjecture. but the 1 appearance of the loop about the wrist, l of the earth thereabouts and the frac- 1, ture of the skull make it a certainty | that Clodfeldter was killed in about this way. It is certain that the horse i killed him.
 Clodfeldter was little known here It l is believed that he recently came to the | Salt river valley from southern Ari- | zona. He rarely spoke of his own af- | fairs or history. pr. Hughes employed | him two weeks ago to put in grain
 In order to locate his relatives it was necessary to search through his. letters | This search adduced the fact that cIod- mother and father live in Santa Barbara and that he was engaged | to Miss Marie Higgins. a school teach CT at Benson. Arizona. His mother and | father were immediately notified by wire. but Miss Higgins is still unaware of the death of her lover. Up to a late hour last night no reply to tthe tele- gram sent the parents had been re- ceived. Until a reply is received no funeral arrangements will be made
 Clodfeldter was about 30 years old and though a quiet person was liked by everyone. Dr. Hughes speaks in the | highest terms of the young man. de- claring that he was an extraordinarily efficient employe.