The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-03 00:00:00

ATTACK ON A MAN BY A LEOPARD.

Ono of the leopards in Whittington's menagerie,
which recently has been making a tour in the Black
Country, and is at present in Birmingham, made a ferocious
attack on a man named Joseph Green, who is employed by
➢lr. Whittington to assist in feeding the animals. Green
had been engaged in preparing the food for the beasts,and
had cut a large piece of beef, which he was carrying from
one end of the menagerie to the other. On passing
the cage in which the leopards were confined, Green was
struck almost powerless, by observing one of the animals
spring forward. In an instant afterwards the leopard, in
one of its most savage moments, seized Green with one of
its powerful claws, lacerating his arm severely. The injury
and pain at the moment were little compared with the
fright the poor man sustained; but there is no doubt
the leopard was tempted to the attack by the beef which
he saw in Green's hand, for, after the one stroke, as if to
reach the meat, the leopard retired. Green having
recovered from the fright, promptly sought the aid of a
surgeon residing at Dudley; but the lacerated limb
growing gradually worse, he went to Birmingham on-Wed-
nesday, and was admitted to the General Hospital. Since
then he has been carefully attended to, and on Friday
night he was so well that all immediate danger was consi-
dered at an end.

A FATHER ROBBED OF £5OO BY HIS
DAUGHTEIes SIVEE7'HEAR7'.

At the Sheffield Town Hall on Friday a young man
named Edward Stansfield, carrying on business as a fish-
monger in Sheffield, was charged with having received,
well knowing them to have been stolen, certain
sums of money belonging to Mr. W. Shaper, tobac
ccnist and eating-house keeper. The facts of the
case were of a very extraordinary nature. In
1865 the daughter of Mr. Shaper became acquainted with
the prisoner, and in a short time they became engaged.
The father of the young lady was very much opposed to
the match, and, in order that he might remove his
daughter out of her lover's way, he sent her to school
iu Germany. There she remained for two years,
photographs being exchanged and a correspondence
being kept up between her and Stansfield. On her
return in 1867 she at once renewed her acquaintance with
the prisoner. The father, however, maintained his oppo-
sition, and the courtship had to be carried on clandestinely.
The prisoner, on the pretence that ho was anxious to be
settled in business and to be married, prevailed on the
young lady to rob her father's till. This system of
robbery continued for six months, the prisoner being
supplied every week with sums ranging front £6 to £lO.
Even these large sums, however, were not sufficient to
supply his wants, and he induced Miss Shaper to obtain
for him the key of her father's cashbox, that he might
obtain a duplicate of it. The false key he supplied her
with enabled her to obtain free access to the cashbox
whenever she pleaed. Mr. Shaper missed money from
time to time from his cashbox, but was unable to detect
the thief, until his daughter, in a fit of jealousy, disclosed
the system of robbery which had been going on for so
many months. Mr. Shaper, on examining his books, found
that the deficit was fully £5OO. The prisoner was at once
arrested, and the above facts having been sworn to by MIA.
Shaper, the bench refused to allow bail.