The evening world., 1893-10-26
LAST EDITION
MANCLED
4 Huge Man.Eater Escaped
While Being Taken From
Ills Cage in a Stable.
KILLED 4 HELPLESS HORSE.
The Imprisoned TrOtter Screamed
in Agony as the Fierce Beast
sprang Upon Him.
OWNER BOSTOCK BADLY BITTEN
Circus Attaches Rescued,
Doors Barricaded and
Keepers Sent For.
OWNER BOSTOCK BADLY BITTEN

Ono Of the biggest lions ever in cap
tIvity got out Of his cage in his tenn
.orarv mia rters in a vacant stable. at
ia East Eighteenth street this morn
ing and for hours kept the entire neigh
borhood in a state of terror.
While enjoying the freedom from his
n.rro-y prison he killed a valuabl trot-
ting horse and seriously wounded his
owner.
The lion was one Of five belonging to
womble's English London Circus, which
arrived in this country from England
about a month ago under the manage
-nent Of Frank Bostock.
The lions were kept on the ground
floor OF the stable in Eighteenth street
pending the prospective tour of tire cir
Gus through the Southern States. Two
boxing kangaroos, which have been ex-
hfbiting at a museum, were kept on the
second floor.
A few day5 agc residents in the
neighborkoeG If tho stable complained
to the Board o. Health of the presence
of the io2-. Especially was the biggest
Ron, know. ~ Wallace, Objectionable
because Of hiS terrific roaring sundays
and ntgA!ts5 ard the residents, some of
them fearful of their lives. 100. in
adsted uvoa sis removal.
For q time to-day these protestants
wished they had kept still, as it seemed
that they had only emerged from the
frying pan 20 take a worse leap into
she FIRE.
Because of their protests the Board of
Health last night ordered Mr.. Bostock
to remove the big lion, Wallace. within
'twenty-four hours. This morning prep
arations were made to take Wallace to
fhe Central Park m~enagerie, and the
removal was to have taken place this af-
ternoon.
F1tzsimmons Brown, keeper OF the
1angaroos, whose stage name Is D'Osta,
and who assists in caring for the lions,
decided to ransfer Wallace to his porta-
ble den before the arrival of Manager
Bostock and the lion trainer, Bronco
Boccacio, a swarthy East Indian,
He had backed the portable den up
20 the big animals cage and blocked
the wheels, or ~castors. with boards. TIC
Roundsman Shea, OF the East Twenty
second street station. who was watch,
ing the proceedings, he said casually
that they might have trouble In getting
Wallace into the portable den, but he
hoped not.
IT hope so, too replied Shea. Don
let him get out" and then he wen
away. This was at 1890 A. NJ. Thirty
minutes later Wallace was out of hi!
cage, had killed a horse. and was tear
ing around the stable, maddened by thu
taste of blood.
At the time there were in the stable
FItzsimmons Brown, his wife, Nine
Pauline Mana, who enters the den of al
the lions except Wallace as a female
trainer: their two little girls and {
nurse.
At II o'clock Nine. Mana dashed GU
the small door OF the stable on tn
ground ioor and with blanched fac
shrieked:
.'Help! Bring a rope, quick! The biz
Hons loose!"
" An employee in w. W. Jones's chin
neS-sweep office, at 127 East Eighteenth
street, brought a coal OF electric-l!gh
wire, with which the door was secured
from the outside.
simultaneously Nine. Nana's HUSBAND
appeared at the door OF the second hoo
OF the stable and shouted:
'For Gods sake, catch my children
The hon! The lion"
An Evening World" reporter pushe'
one of the portable kangaroo cage
standing outside under the door and Mr.
Jones mounted 1t.
Then Brown swung his children an
the nurse down, and they escaped
Brown ran back to the head Of the mar
row stairway, which he Slockadad witt
anything that came handy.
Meanwhile the shrieks OF Brown an
his wife had drawn an immense crow
Of spectators. When they learned tn
cause Of the commotion, however, the
withdrew 70 q supposed safe distance
while residents OF the ~neighborhoo'