Shocking Death.
The shocking death of a female tamer of wild beasts is reported from Hobeninuth, in IJohemia. She was a girl twentysix years old,' named ■ Bertha Baumgarlner, During a public performance in a strolling menagerie she entered an empty cago, and the door of au adjoining cage was then opened to let a lion and a Bengal tiger enter. The lion walked ! in quietly, but tho tiger, a ferocious , beast, which had three times wounded its keeper?, crouched in the doorway , ! and showed temper. The girl lost j nerve, cried for help and slipped. As a j she did so the tiger made a spring, , bit her on the shoulder, then in the ' throat, literally rent her to pieces, \ and tossed her body about. Half the j audience ran to the doors in horror, , while the attendants tried to beat off j the tiger by pokiiig hot irons into the , cage, but the girl was dead long \ before the animal was driven away. \ The lion seems to have been as much d j frightened as the human spectators, V for he took no p»rfc in thecarnsge. The proprietor of the show has since . admitted that the same tiger, bad previously killed two people. ,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3347, 29 October 1889, Page 2
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204Shocking Death. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3347, 29 October 1889, Page 2
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