Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-11-10
A HORSE.TAMER tanned.
A Norman "Man-Eater" in California
Makes a Meal of n Disciple of Rarey.

Makes a Meal of a Disciple of Rarey.
from the san Francisco Chronicle
Prof. X. ii. Tapp, the celebrated
American hOrse-tamer, commenced a
week ago to tame the Petaluma man
eater, as described in last Sundays
Chronicle, and has every day since given
public exhibitions of his process and
progress in temporary amphitheater
in the rear of the Record Stables on
Market Street, opposite Seventh. Yes
terday, however, the man-eater changed
the programme, and attempted to tame
Tapp in so effective way that Tapp
emerged sorely wounded, and only by a
miracle with his life. The man-eater,
whose other name is Cogniac, is dark
dapple gray Norman stallion, seven
years old, weighing in fighting trim
eighteen hundred pounds, foaled in Nor
mandy, France, imported two years ago
to Illinois, and subsequently bought by
Joseph Wooden, the Norman horse
breeder of Petaluma, and brought to this
State, and declared by horsemen to be
the finest horse of the breed ever brought
to America. Until brought to Illinois
he had been IN exceptionally gentle ami
NAL, but, having indiscreetly, and prob
ably playfully, bitten out a couple of
pounds of an Illinois groom, he
was so injudiciously and brutality
beaten that, as Deacon Duncan would
say. he experienced change
of heart, all his latent deviltry was
developed, and he has ever since been
the terror of ali whom necessity has
thrown into his company. With the
exception of occasionally eating host
Ter, he is an invaluable brute, and Mr.
Wooden consigned him to Mr.. Tapp to
have him cured Of this sole little foible.
Yesterday at O'Clock the exhibition
commenced in the presence of about 200
spectators, and progressed till half-past
8, during which time the horse had been
handled by the professor, and even
driven to buggy, and appeared perfectly
tractable and to have kind of lost his APP
petite for stablemen. After being I'M
hitchad he was cross-hobbled by making
a stout rope fast from the fetlock of his
nigh fore leg to that of his off hind leg,
an arrangement which permitted him to
trot but prohibited him from galloping
as also his kneeling down, and which is
why Tapp still lives to try conclusions
with him. The horse stood near the
center of the inclosed circle, and the
professor about midway between him
and the inclosing high barricade, the
horse perfectly subdued under the eye
of the commander. Some person on a
seat in the rear of Tapp asked him a
question, and for one instant Tapp re-
povad his eva and half t,rned hiS head
to answer. In that instant the crafty
brute sprang upon him like a tiger.
There was yell of horror from
the spectators as the horse caught the
man up by the clothes at the small of the
hack, shook him as terrier does rat,
and flung him through the air against
the inclosing planking. Before Tapp
could regain his feet the ferocious mon
ster was again upon him, seizing him
with his teeth by the left shoulder
and endeavoring to kneel down upon
him, which is his last and most approx
ed way of killing his keeper. This the
cross-hobble prevented him from doing,
and the cool professor, with his shoulder
still in the cruel grip OF the monsters
jaws, struggled to his feet and with his
right hand so held the bit as to prevent
as far as possible the successful working
of the horses jaws. The crowd was in
tensely excited. Mr.. Wooden seized a
long pole and poked it between the