Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — Sure Death. [ARTICLE]

Sure Death.

There is a certain way that experienced stockmen know of throwing a horse down so as to break his neck and kill him at once. An ordinary halter is put on the horse, the lead strap from it passed between the horse’s front legs, a turn being taken around the far one near the fetlock. The executioner then hits the horSe a sharp cut with a whip, and when he jumps up pulls sharply and strongly on'the halter strap. The horse strikes head first, with the entire weight on his neck. The fall is invariably fatal.. The band played “Nearer, My God, to Thee,’.! as the aeronaut began his balloon ascension at the Ellsworth (Me.) fair tbe other day.