The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-16
i IIoRsE.TAsaER Tanned.
. Norman "yaam.EaTeE' fh Cal
iEOrniss Makes a Meal Of a
Disciple Of A1arey.

. Norman "Nlam.EaIer'' fn Cal
iEOrni@ Makes a Meal Of a
Disciple Of AEarey.
Prof. R. III. Tapp, the celebrated
American horse-isr1er. commenced
3 week ago to tan n Petaluma
unan-eater, As describel last Sat-
urday's Chr 'icle, aEd has every
day since 81 III pubic exhibitions
of his process and progress in q
temporary anphitheater in the
rear OF the Record stables, on Mar
ket street, opposite Seventh. Yes
terday, however, the mAn-eater
changed the programme, and at
tempted to tame Tspp In 80 effec
tive q way that Tspp emerged sOreiy
wounded and oaIy by miracle
with bis life. The man-eaier, whose
other name lie Cogniac, lie q dark
dapple gray Norman stallion, sew
en- years old, weighing In fighting
trim eighteen hundred p0unde,
soaled in Normandy, France, im-
ported two years ago to Illinois,
and subsequently bought by Jo-
seph Wooden, the Norman horse
breeder, of Petaluma, and brought
% this state, and declared by horse
men to be the finest horse of the
breed ever brought To America.
Until brought to Illinois he had
been al exceptionally gentle ami
mai, but, having indiscreetIy, and
probably playfn lily bitten out q
couple of pounds of an Illinois
groom, he was so iujudiclously and
brutally beaten that, Is Deacon
Duncan would say, he experienced
deYiltry was developed aud he has
ever since been the terror of all
whom necessity has thrown into
his company. With the exception
of occasionally eating q hestler, he
il an invaluable brute, and Mr..
Wooden consigned him to Mr..
Tapp to have him cured of this
sole little foible. Yesterday at two
o'clock the ext ibition commenced
in the presence of about two humid
red spectators, and progressed till
half-past three, during which time
the horse had been handled by the
professor, and even driven to q bug
gy, aud appeared perfectly tractable
aud to have kiad of Lost his appe-
tiIe for stablemen. After being u0-
hitched he was crosse hobbled by
making q stout rope fast from the
fetiock of his nigh fore leg to that
of his off hind leg. an arrangement
which permitted him to trOt, but
prevented his gallopping, as also
his kneeling down, and which is
why 9app still lives to try conclu-
sions with him. The horse stood
near the center of the inclosed cir
Gle, and the professor about MD
way between him and the inclosing
high barricade, the horse perfectly
subdued under the eye of the com.
mander. Some person on a seat in
the rear of Tapp asked him q ques-
ton. and for one instant Tapp re-
moved his eye and half turned his
head TO answer. In that instant the
crafty brute sprang upon him like
q tiger. There was q yell of hor-
ror from the spectators as the horse
caught the man up by the clothes at
the email of the back, shook him
as q terrier does q rat, and flung
him through the air against the in
closing planking. Before Tapp
could regain his feet the ferocious
monster was agaia upon him, seiz-
ing him with his teeth by the left
shoulder and endeIvoriug TO kneel
down upon him, which is his last
and most approved method of kill
ing his keeper. This the cross-hob-
BILE prevented him from doing. and
the cool professor, with his should
er still in the grip of the monsters
Jaw, struggled to his feet, and with
his right nand so held the bits to
prevent as far as possible the sue
cessful working of the horses jaws.
The crowd was inten sely excited.
Mr.. Wooden seized a long pole and
poked it between tie halter and the
horses lower jaw and still further
retarded the biting. The friends of
Tapp called for q gun, but there
was no gun, and what is remarkable
in q collection of two hundred Cal
ifornians, no one had q revolver, or
the murderous brute would have
been shot dead instantly. The
horse and Tapp continued fighting
half way around the ring, Wooden
on the seats outside still hampering
the formers efforts with the pole.
The spectators on the front seats
also did all they could TO distract
the man-eater's attention, one lady
selling the crutch of q man sitting
next her, and beating the horse ov.
er the head with it. BY the aid OF
these distractions Tspp was enabled
by degrees to draw his arm through
the horses jaws, the horse chewing
it impartiaily as it slipped away
from him until finally it was entire
ly withdrawn. The crowd shouted
to Tapp to jump for his life, but the
plucKy trainer called for his whip
and with his mangled left arm dang
ling by his side, so tickled the fet.
locks of Cogniac that that enter.
prising animal was again.in what
Tapp foDdly calls subjection. Las
evening the trainer was In the eta
Bile Office with friend pouring an
OdorOus Imminent over his bandsge6
arm, and the msn-eater, with al
his evil passions iBfi4med with the
taste of blood, was romping around
HE prison and eagerly reaching up
tor . mouthful of any timid specla.
tor that ventured near enough tC
look down at him. The people
will continue to look forward with
interest to the solution of the prob.
lem OF whether Tspp will tame thG
man-eater, or the name ater tame
Tapp.