Savage Bull-fight.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 284, 5 December 1904, Page 3

Savage Bull-fight.

TORTURED ANIMAL CHARGES THE CROWD. SPECTATOR GORED. PARIS, Sept. 19. For more than a month the greatest distress has prevailed in Mars.'il- , lea owing to the shipping strike, and the butchers and bakers have had to give unlimited credit. But that did not prevent 12,000 persons from paying for admission yesterday to the new arena on the Prado, whero a great bull-fight was advertised to take place. Bull-fights are forbidden in France, but yesterday's performance resulted in a butchery, and before the brutal spectacle was over hulf a dozen bulls and seven horses had been done to death, while one of the spectators, a Spaniard named Raphael Lopez, was so terribly injured that he was taken in a dying condition to the hospital. Th; savage instincts of the crowd were roused to fury by the refusal of lhe first bull to gore the wretched and unwilling horse led against it, but full satisfaction was given them by the second bull, which disembowelled ithree horses and wounded more than one of the toreadors. At the sight of the blood the crowd drew nearer to the ring, and when one of the bulls leaiied the barrier in pursuit of a matador a scene of wild excitement followed. It wus then that Lopez was gored by the maddened animal, and with his shirt drenched with blood was carried from the building. This deplorable incident, however, did not put an end to the "sport," and as bull after bull was stabbed to death the frenzied spectators plauded frantically, men throwing their hats into the ring, while women waved their handkerchiefs and children clapped their tiny bands. When the barjbarous entertainment was over the police issued summonses against the toreadors and the manager of .the arena.