A CIRCUS SENSATION.
TRAINER SEIZED BY A LIONESS.
THE ANIMAL SHOT.
(Received 10.2S a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A highly sensational affair took place yesterday in Wirth Brothers' circus, in-. TOhing the shooting of a lioness and th_ narrow escape from a frightful death -t Captain Burrows, the trainer attached to Messrs. Wirth's show. Captain Burrows was in a cage with tfce lioness, a young animal, when it suddenly pounced upon him. The imsiMnee of his peril was promptly 168 iised by a member of the company, *io was standing outside the cage, and dare being apparently no other possible wirse, the lioness was shot dead. Captain Burrows escaped injury, exj*pt that one of his legs was lacerated ty a bite or by the paws of the liones3.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1906, Page 5
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127A CIRCUS SENSATION. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1906, Page 5
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