From:  Sunland Tribune
04 December 1879

 Man killed in Manatee Co.

 We learn from Mr. T. P. Kennedy who returned from Ft. Ogden last Saturday, that a Mr. Whidden was killed by his horse in the neighborhood of Pine Level week before last.  Mr. W., who was familiarly known as Jimmie Jockey Whidden in Manatee Co., went out cow-hunting, and his horse returning without rider or saddle, a search was instituted the next day when Mr. W's. body was found badly bruised and mangled.  It is supposed that the horse threw him and that his foot hung in the stirrup and then the horse dragged and kicked him to death.

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