The evening world., 1893-10-26
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rushed inside their houses, and bolted
their doors and windows.
Across the street hundreds OF girls in
Huyler's confectionery establishment,
at the windows and trembled in fear
and anxiety. Downstairs in the office
the clerks took more than an ordinary
interest in the proceedings.
Inside the barn me African monarch
could be heard jumping around n up
setting things generally. while the poor
horse, his intended victim, was snorting
in terror.
Occacionally the king OF beasts dashed
fiimsy, rotten affairs, and threatened to
give way at any moment.
With rare presence OF mind a specta-
tor. a little. slight-built man. rushed into
John Spence's carpenter shop, at 1871
East Eighteenth street, and ordered him
to nail up the shaking doors.
He did so. Poles and rails were also
brought and the doors securely braced
from the outside. Then the crowd
breathed easier.
To an Evening World" reporter Nine.
Mana gave this account of the affair:
My husband had backed the small len,
which was on wheels. up to the other
den. The lion crawled out and his weight
showed the smaller the smaller den one
side, and he jumped out into the stable
and at once made for the poor horse. I
rushed out the front door and my hus-
band and the nurse ran up the stairs.
The children were already upstairs play
ing with the kangaroos."
Nine. Mana also said tina when the
lion jumped for the horse he leaped
directly over her head, not harmlng her
possibly because he knew her.
The horse was one that Manager
Bostock had purchased only last night
to send back to England.
Wallace speedily pounced on him and
tore him limb from limb.
Infatuated by the taste and smell of
fresh blood. the lion became furious, and
his roaring could be heard around the
entire neighborhood.
Messengers were hastily despatched
or Manager Bostock and Trainer Bocca-
clio. The former arrived at II 90, and
mounting to the second story by a lad
der, fearlessly descended to the ground
floor, where Wallace was feasting on
the horse.
Brown went with him. With clubs
they tried to drive the beast from his
slaughtered victim, but in vain.
The Infatuated animal roared and
horribly than ever.
once, when pressed too closely, III
grabbed Bostock by the right forearm
and "a his fangs clear through it.
Then, fortunately for Bostock. h,
retiI ed agani to his ~feasting on tn,
horse.
The two men then rested for awhil,
and at II o'clock noon B~occaccio, tn,
trainer, arrived.
He was cool and daring even to seem
ing recklessness.
He attempted to enter the stable by
the ground floor door, but was prevented
by Roundsman Shea and his squad o
policemen, and made to ascend tn,
ladder to the second story.
Reinforced by Boccacio, Bostock AM
Brown again returned to the attack
They used clubs and sticks f%requentl!
firing blank pistol cartridges in thei
attempt TO brighten the lion back int,
his den.
When they pressed the attack Hil
Majesty would roar terrifcally. but
when they desisted for n moment he re
manned quiet and resumed his blood!
banquet.
Many of the spectators, hearing n,
pistol shots, imagined that the men wer
killing the lion. This was not the case
however, as the animal Is valued a
5000, and the circus attaches were con
'ident hat none of The lion assailan
would kill him unless their W live
We're sorely in danger.
Up to 2 o'clock Wallace had not beef
captured, but Manager Bostock wa
still participating in the lion-hunt. II
spite of his injuries.
This is the second time Wallace ha
escaped. The other time was a yea,
ago, in England. when he got into al
open field n was r~ecaptured with grea
difficulty.
He is twenty years old and stand
fully four feet high. He was purchase,
Of Cross, the Edinburgh animal dealer
and has killed three men during his life
tiuie.
The boxing kangaroos were remove
from the second floor of the stable as
matter of ~precaution just before noon.