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case, because of recent occurrence, the Hillman horse, of 

 Portland, Me. This horse could not be handled at all. 

 He would kill, if he could, any one going near him. A 

 grand-son of Gen. Knox, known as one of the best trot- 

 ting sires in New England, and one of the finest formed 

 colts in Maine, every effort was made to break him. He 

 would bite, strike, and kick ; he had the eye and expression 

 of a bull-dog, and was known throughout the State as the 

 most dangerous horse ever known in New England or in 

 this country. He stood for nine months in a building, 

 without any hope of ever being broken, unless I could do 

 it. Yet I was able to bring this horse under the most 

 complete control in less than thirty minutes, so that others 

 could handle and drive him afterwards with entire safety. 



NOTED HORSES. -HILLMAN HORSE. 



The following from the Portland " Argus" and " Press," of 

 that date, will give a good idea of the desperate character 

 of this horse, the importance of the feat of his subjection, 

 and the success of the experiment. 



From the Portland (Me.) Argus, Friday, June 23, 1876. 



Yesterday morning Prof. D. Magner, whose skill as a tamer of vicious 

 horses is almost proverbial, accompanied by a number of well-known 

 gentlemen, left this city and rode out to the residence of Rev. A. P. 

 Hillman, to try his skill at subduing Mr. Hillman's stallion "Jet," 

 which has the reputation of being the most uncontrollable and the 

 most savage dispositioned stallion in this State. 



On arriving at Mr. Hillman's quite a number of the neighbors were 

 found gathered about the stable, anxious to see the handsome but 

 vicious "Jet " led forth from the box-stall in which he had been kept 

 ever since last September. The stall in which "Jet" has been kept 

 in close confinement for nearly nine months past, is so arranged that 

 his food and water can be given him without any chance for the fierce 

 brute to fix his glittering teeth into his feeder's arm or shoulder, or 

 strike him with his feet. 



When Magner first entered the stall, the demon in the brute 

 showed itself in the most striking manner by frantic efforts to seize 

 him with his teeth, rushing around his narrow quarters like a caged 

 tiger, while the red flash of his wild eyes would have deterred many 

 strong men from approaching him. A large number of people in- 

 terested in horses, including nearly every physician in the city, were 

 assembled at this place, on the stallion's arrival. 



At ten o'clock, the time appointed for the trial, Prof. Magner 



