WOMAN'S ORDEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 18

WOMAN'S ORDEAL

, CLAWED, BY LIONESS

,'• A young woman recently had a nariftw, escape from a serious injury when she was '.--badly clawed by a' lioness while standing near tycagc at a theatre in Leeds.. She is Miss Winnie Anderson, and it was during a tour,of the cages with-,a number of other"people that slie was attacked. "\ ~ Telling-.of her experience while lying in bed-at her home, Miss Anderson, who had' twenty* stitches put in the wound, said: "I was passing round the cages .with the paity when this lioness suddenly reached out and grabbed my leg. It* pulled'mo toward the cage'immediately, and —very naturally, 1 think —I let out a scream. • " ""The lioness sank its claws through my'clothes into my thigh, and pullo'd me to the ground. It got hold of mo with its other paw then, too, and kept on trying to ding mq against the bars of. tho cage. By that time its roars, had stirred up the other lions,'and they all roared, too. I think the din they made was about the worst,part of the scene,- for I, had a nightmare thought that they would all rush out at' me. * "Men came to my help,. but I do not recall much of my being got clear. I can remember wishing*, _rantically that I could faint, but I couldn't—l couldn't even cry." Miss Anderson recalled * that, when* the' lioness was pulling her . towards the cage on the ground,"its roaring aroused, another lioness, asleep in" the, same cage, and that this oue,\too, c?me lushing to the bars. - ' * "Altogether, I had-a .pretfy fierce time while it lasted," Miss Anderson said. "I had read about peoplo7being mauled, but I never thought I, would haye the experience. I don't want to see a lion again." . ■ V ,