PENALTIES OF DARING.
PREFERENCE TO COLONIAL
RINSMEN
London, April 3
A chapter of accidents occurred today at the Schumann circus in Berlin.
The first mishap occurred to a competitor who was riding around the on horseback and cutting off “Turks heads” with a sword. His horse savaged him, pulled him from the saddle and ffUagged him round the ring several times, badly bruising him. Then a man who was hanging from a rapidly "revolving ring suspended from . tffe roof lost his hojjtt and fell to the ground, sustaining severe internal damage. • .• pi TV J • ••.! fr The third and last mishap was the worst of the three. Two Chinese jugglers fell while sliding down a wire rope by their pig-tails. Their scalps were torn from their heads, qnd they sustained agonising Injuries, to which they aro likely to succumb.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 6
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138PENALTIES OF DARING. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 6
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