The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-11-06
The 8alletin.
THE LATEST RAREy.
And sAe Cenniet he had withR Worse
BFate than ever "Crutser" was. ~

San Fran,i-co Chronicle.
Prof Il. II. Tapp, the celebrated Ameri'
can hors ,-tamer, commenced aweek ago
10 tame the Petsluma man.eater, a. des-
eribed In last Sundays Chronicle, and has
every day since given public exhibition OF
his pr Jcess and progress 10 Temporary am
phltheater In the rear Of the Record stable,
on Market street, opposite seventh. Yes
terday, however, the man.eater changed
the programme, and attempted te tame
Tapp In 80 effective q way tina! Tapp EN-.
ergsd s0rcly wounded, and only by amir.
acle with his lie. The naa-ester, whose
other name 10 COgniae, Is . dark dApD's-
gray Norman stallion, seven years old,
weighing, 10 fighting trim, eighteen hun
dred pouL d., f0aled in Normandy France;
Imported TO years ago to Illinois, and sub
ssqueBtly b0uht by. Joseph Wooden, the
Norman horse. breeder, Of Petaiuma, and
bro ught to this state, and declaerd by
harsemen 70 be the finest horse Of the breed
ever brought IN America Uatil brought
to Illinois he had been an exceptionally
gentle animal, bot, having indiscreetly, and
| probably playiully, bitten out couple Of
pounds OF an Illinois groom, he was % in
judiciously and bIutaly beaten that, as
Deaeon DUNCAN would say, he experienced
q change Of heart, all bis latent deyiltry WAS
developed, and he has eyersince been the
terror OF all whom necessity have thrown
into bis company. Mr.. Wooden CONSIGNED
him to Mr.. Tspp to have him cured OF this
sole little foible. Yesterday at two O'Clock
the exhibition commenced In the presence
OF about two hundred spectators, and pro-
crossed until about half.past three, during
which tine the horse had been handled
by the professor, driven to the buggy, and
appeared perfectly traetable. After being
unhitched.h he was cron.hobbled by making
. stout rope fast from the fetlock Of his
nigh fore leg 10 that of his Of hin 1 leg, IN
an arrangement which permitted him to
trot but prevented his galloping, n also his
knesling down. The horse stood near the
center oftLe enclosed circle and the pro.
lessor shout midway between him and the
inclosing high barricade, the horse perect-
ly subdusd under the eye OF the comman-
der. Some person on seat In the rear
Of Tapp ssked him question, and for one
instant Tapp removed his eye and halt
turned his head 10 answer. In that Iu.
slant the crafty brute sprang upon him
like tiger. There was 4 yell OF horror
from the spectators as the horse caught the
man up by the clothes 1t the small OF his
back, shook him ~ terrier does arat,
and flung him through the air sgaisss the
inclosing planking. Before Tapp could
regain his feet the feroclous monster was
again upon him, seizing him with his teeth
by the left shoulder and endeayoring to
kneel down upon hin. This the cross
hobble prevented him from doing, and the
cool professor, with his shoulder still II in the
grip OF the monsters jaws, struggling tobis
feet and, with his right hand, SO held the
bit ~ TO prevent rs for as possible the
successful working OF the horses jaws.
The crowd was intensely excited. Mr..
Wooden seized long pole and poked 1t
between the halter and the horses lower
jaw, and still further retarded the biting.
The friends Of Tspp called for gun, but
there was no gun, and what 10 remarka lie
In q collection oftwo hundred Cali ornisns,
no one had revolvers, or the murderous
brute would have been shot instantly. The
horse and Tapp continued fighting half way
arouid the ring, Wooden on the seat out
side still hamperlng the formers efforts
with the pole. The spectators on the front
seats also did oil they could to distract the
man.eater's attention, one lady SELLING
the crutch Of man sitting neIs htr and
beating the horse over the head with It.
Bv the aid Of tqese distsrctions Tapp vas
enabled by degrees to draw his arm through
the horses jaws, the horse chewing it o. it
slipped away from him, until finally 1t was
entirely withdraw. The crowd shouted
70 Tapp to jump for his life, but the plucky
trainer called for his whip, and with his
manglsd left arm dangling BY his side, 50
tiekled the fetlocks of Cognisc that that en-.
terprising animal was again in what Tspp
fondly calls subsection. Last evening the
trainer was In the stable.ofice with friend
pouring On odious Imminent over his banda.
gsd arm, and the man.eater, with all bis
evil passions inflamed with the taste Of
blood, was romping, around his prison and
eagerly reaching up for mouthiul Of any
timid spectator that ventured near enough
to look down at him. The people will con.
tinus to look forward with interest to the
solution Of the problem whether Tspp will
tame the mSn.eater or the man.eater tame