DRAMA AT CIRCUS.
BOY’S TUSSLE WITH A LION. LONDON. Dec. 28. Depositing his overcoat on his father’s knee, a hoy, aged 15, raced down the aisle at a Manchester circus, jumped into the ring, and sprang on the back of a five-year-old forestbred lion. He seized a tuft of the lion’s mane and tried to liang on, but tlie lion pulled him to the ground. The hoy’s parents screamed, but the people in the gallery thought it was part of the act. When attendants and the lion’s trainer —a. young woman — rushed to rescue the boy, there were shouts of “Let them fight it out.”
The boy escaped minus the seat of his pants and a slightly lacerated leg. The trainer, who was billed to wrestle with the lion, was bitten.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 79, 13 January 1945, Page 5
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