ATTACKED BY A LEOPARD.
Gioxio Vannuzzi, a wild-beast tamer, engaged in a menagerie now visiting Rome, was attacked by a huge leopard with whom he was performing. The beast's attack afforded Vaimuzzi an opportunity for the display of coolness and courage of a most remarkable kind. While he was in the act of lifting the animal by its forelegs the leopard tried to seize the tamer's neck between its teeth, and though the attempt was foiled, it succeeded in biting Vanuuzzi's elbow, and only disengaged it after repeated blow's. The audience, struck with terror, called upon Vannuzzi to" leave the cage. He obeyed, but only to have his wound dressed by a surgeon, after which he returned to the cage, and went through the performance to the end. Vannuzzi has been 18 times mauled by his beasts, and on two occasions- by the same leopard; and his wounds have been on two occasions so severe that he has been detained in hospital for several months. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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165ATTACKED BY A LEOPARD. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13483, 6 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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