Tamer from Europe Has a Desperate Battle at Winsted, Conn.
Mozart, a lion tamer just from Europe, was nearly killed the other night at the Nickel Plate circus at Winsted, Conn., by Mad Lizzie, the lioness that has killed eight men.
He had entered the cage just as a furious storm broke, and the deafening thunder frightened and enraged the animal. Three thousand people gasped for breath, and half an acre of women shrieked: “Oh!” as a thunderbolt flamed out of the storm like a meteor.
The terrified people saw the man eater leap at the trainer’s throat. She missed it, but sank her white teeth deep into Mozart’s arm. Screams and shrieks, louder than the storm, rang through the arena-then applause greeted the man of iron.
He sank as eight-inch dagger, which he carried, into the beast, which leaped back to its corner as if shot from a gun. Then the attendants rushed in and the man escaped.
Scores of women fainted, but the big tamer came to time, pale and smiling. Exports in lion bites said Mozart would recover.
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