Man savaged by boar

Two voluntary nurses, selling flags in aid of the Red Cross at Stirling Auction Mart, came to the rescue when a man was savaged by a `large white boar’, the Observer of May 1959, reported.

Mrs Martha Murray, Waverley Crescent, Stirling and Miss Catherine Adam, Ferndene Terrace, Bannockburn, tended to the wounds of 49-yearold Michael Cairney, Drip Road, Stirling.

Mr Cairney had tried to separate two white boars when one attacked him. He was badly bitten on the calf, thigh and immediately above the knee. Some of his flesh had been torn away.

Farmers and drovers rushed to his aid and pulled him out of the pen. His wounds were dressed and cleaned by the two ladies before he was taken to Stirling Royal Infirmary.

• Meanwhile, the paper reported that the owner of a Welsh corgi, which bit a postman, was ordered by Stirling Burgh Court to keep the dog under proper control. Harold Stuart Jefferson, company superintendent, Castle Road, Causewayhead, admitted being the owner of a dog which on March 18, 1959, in the front garden of the above address, rushed at postman John Ireland Steele , Gillies Hill, Cambusbarron, and bit him. The accused said the dog knew the postman well and had never attacked him that way previously.