TO SEE HER PET

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 186, 4 May 1929, Page 29

TO SEE HER PET

FEARLESS WOMAN AND DYING DOG. A woman who has defeated death on several occasions and was renowned for her fearlessness has just found that she is unable to resist the call of a dying pet, and recently set sail from Southampton to see it, thousands of miles away. The woman is the Baroness Fern Andra, known in two continents as "Fearless Fern.” Among the Baroness’s most exciting adventures have been escapes from: — An aeroplane crash witli Baron Lothar Richtofen, brother of the famous German ace; Drowning in a yachting episode; Being bitten to death by a German police dog; and Being mauled to death by enraged lions. “What was my most thrilling adventure? That is difficult to say, but I should think it was the one in which I escaped being mauled to death by fighting lions,” she said. ' “I had cut my leg rather badly, and the blood soaked through the bandages. Still, I went into a cage containing a dozen lions to give them some practice. “One of the lions came up to me and started sniffing around my wounded leg. The smelling ot my blood evidently maddened the animal, which started a terrible battle with the other lions. “One of the lions was torn to pieces. I managed to edge my way round the cage until I reached the trapdoor, through which I escaped.”