CHILD KILLED BY A LION.
A child performer was killed by a lion, while giving a skirU dance in the animal's cage in a menagerie at Auray, in France, a few weeks ago. The little girl, who was an accomplished dancer, had hardly begun her performance, when the lion growled, and after walking angrily round the cage once or twice, finally sprang on the child, killing her with one blow of his paw. The horrified audience fled ; ami the lion tamer, who is the child's father attempted to enter the cage. The lion was standing over the child's body, roaring angrily, and it took the tamer some time to drive the animal into a corner and rescue the body. Several persons stated that the tamer knew the animal was in a bad temper earlier in the evening, and he was arrested on a charge of having caused the child's death.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2643, 28 August 1906, Page 2
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