A young lion recently Imported from Africa was. heincnut; thrmigh its paces By Captain Thomas. Purchase‘in Bis meiiagene- at; ;Mitcßani Fair fSurrey) when it lashed out and i-ith its claws tore the'first finger of liis left hand ■to the bone. Very few of the spectators were - . aware that the lion tamer was hurt, an Captain Purchase was hurried from tiie show by a local doctor, ' who stitched the wound. The captain, had had no previous trouble with the lion. Captain Purchase next -night entered the cage a number - of- times with ~,1.1. only a heavy cudgel.He'was handicapped by his heavily-bandaged hand, :
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10724, 23 October 1928, Page 4
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