A SAVAGE BEAR.
ATTACKS HIS TRAINER. ' SENSATIONAL INCIDENT AT A CIRCUS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Night. A sensational incident happened nt ' Wirth's circus to-night, when a bear attacked) its .trainer. Sid. Rose, the trainer, who was in the cage, took a beaT by the foreleg and led it for a promenade. They were halfway round the cage when the bear bit out suddenly with its free paw. The, man went down with the bear upon him, its teeth fixed in his arm. Mr. G. Wirth, who was near, seized a great billet of wood and rushed into the arena. He struck the bear on the head, and then lost the wood. McGuinnis, a menagerie hand, followed, armed with an iron bar. As he belabored , the beast, Herr Schmid, the trainer of • the polar bears, came to the fight with a heavy pitchfork. At the same time a, half-caste entered the cage and beat the beast with a piece of piping, and while . ' the bear was beaten off and kept back, . the trainer was pulled out and taken to the hospital, his wounds being a lacerated arm and thigh and heavy scratches about the body. . Amoigst the audience there was great excitement, women shrieking and meH „ •■ shouting.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 9 January 1912, Page 5
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206A SAVAGE BEAR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 9 January 1912, Page 5
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