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ATTACKED BY LIONCarnival Act at Marshalltown Nearly a Tragedy.KEEPER BIT AND CLAWEDBeast Subdued By Breaking Club Over Its Head.Bridge Man Falls Seventy Feet—Fifty Women Candidates for Office This Year—What Saloon Men Want —News About Iowa.Marshalltown, Oct. 1.—Two accidents occurred at the carnival grounds Tuesday afternoon and evening, but fortunately neither resulted seriously. Col. Edwin F. J. Goldsmith, the trainer of the Otto animal show, was at-' tacked by King, a big male lion, and “Jimmie1’ Baldwin, the lad who makes the parachute leap from the balloou, was injured in making his descent.The accident to Colonel Goldsmith was witnessed by a tent full of people who were attending one of the performances Tuesday afternoon. The lion had shown signs ‘Of. being ugly ail afternoon, but his trainer had no fear. King is only sixteen months old, but is one-third larger than the average lion of his age. Having been forest bred he is not of the docile nature that is more often seen among captivity-bred animals.Goldsmith has been at work‘several weeks breaking King to a hoop and hurdle act, and he has been very reluctant about performing. When the time for the turn arrived the lion did not offer to make a move. Instead he eyed his trainer’s every move, and appeared very sullen. On being prodded, to.get up and perform, the animal struck Goldsmith with his paw.. He - was . driven back to his corner, and up cm ‘ the next attempt made a vicious lunge at the trainer, catching him on the left arm with his claws. The third attack was the serious one. The lion sprang upon the trainer, and stTuck him with his paw on the right arm, tearing a gash under the elbow one-half inch long and one and one-half inches deep. At the same time he buried his teeth in the wrist, cutting a gash one and one-. half inches in length and a quarter of an inch deep, just 'missing the main artery. The back of the hand shows seven teetli marks, and the palm four. The left hand is also considerably scarred by the scratches of the infuriated animal’s teeth. To conquer the beast Goldsmith was compelled to break a six-foot hickory pole, two and one-half inches in diameter, over the lion’s head and back This punishment seemed to have the desired effect, for when the first evening performance was given King was as docile as a kitten, and only just snarled a trifle before he did his much-despised stunt.The lion. is the same one that attacked his trainer at Oskaloosa last July and last May came near killing his keeper at the Middleton museum in Chicago.
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Waterloo Daily Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 01, 1903
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