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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 Fall* Seventy Feet—Fifty Women Candidate* for Offie* Thi* Year—What Saloon Men Want —New* About Iowa.Marshalltown, Oct 1.—Two . accidents occurred at the carnival grounds Tuesday afternoon and evening, hut .fortunately neither resulted seriously. ■CoL Edwin F. J. Goldsmith, the trainer of the . Otto animal show, was attacked by King, a big male lion, and “Jimmie” Baldwin, the lad . who makes the parachute leap from the balloon, wag 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 Bigns of being ugly all afternoon, but his trainer had no fear. King is only sixteen months old, hut is one-third larger than the average lioh of bis age. Having been forest teed he is not of the docile nature that is moire 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 re-Juctant about performing. When the-time for the turn arrived the Jion did not offer to make a move, instead he eyed his trainer’s every move, and appeared very sullen. Oh -being prodded, to get up and perform, the animal struck Goldsmith with.his paw. He was driven back to hla corner, and; upon 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 lidn sprang upon the trainer, and. struck him with hla 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.0 The, back .of the .hand shows seven teeth 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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Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 02, 1903
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