Tragedy at a Menagerie.
A horrible tragedy took place at Lyons, in a menagerie. ' A clerk, named Leon Eissette, aged twenty four, who had the entree of the show, made up his mind to be photographed m the central lion's cage. • He entered the cage, which was, of course, empty, and while the photographer was getting ready his camera ho approached the neighbouring cage j in which an enormous lion, named Bom uins, lay sleeping. He did all he could to excite the animal through the bar?) and while preasing against the partition inadvertently opened the trap door which separated the two cages. The lion bounded through the opening, and springing upon the unfortunate clerk seized his head in its mouth, crushing it terribly. The young fellow was killed almost instantaneously. It was with utmost difficulty that* the lion tamer induced the lion to relinquish his prey and return to his cage.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 129, 29 November 1895, Page 2
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152Tragedy at a Menagerie. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 129, 29 November 1895, Page 2
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