The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-03
a CHILD MANGLED BY A CAT.
ence of Dog Near Her Litter of
Kittens.
From the New York Tribune.

Kittens.
From the New York Tribune
Infuriated almost to madness, a large
female Maltese cat attacked and fright
fully mangled little Michael Rice yester-
day morning, biting and clawng and lac
Grating him till the blood ran from nearly
forty wounds.
The baby boy. only years old was
cheerfully playing about the floor of his
mothers apartments, at No. 1864 Third
avenue, when suddenly the enraged ami
NAL rushed through the door, sprang upon
MN as tiger springs upon doe, setting
her glistening teeth in his soft baby arm.
the cats eyes flashed, her hair stood out
straight from her body, her tail was bush
ed out to twice its ordinary size and she
yoWled and spit in anger as she cluAg
TO the tender victim
screams of pain and terror startled the
mother, who was a work in the next
room. With cry she rushed to save her
baby from the Infatuated cat. She caught
up an ironing board and welding it with
all her strength beat the cat but in vain.
The Infatuated animal chung to her youth
ful victim, setting her sharp claws deeper
IN the SOFT flesh and tearing at the babys
Finally Mrs. Rice tore a cover from
a table and threw it over the cat She
then managed to tear the boy loose from
the animal and ran with him to an inner
bedroom, slamming the door behind her.
me bafiied brute leaped against the
closed door again and again, clawing at
the woodwork and yowling in rage.
The noise of the conflict brought sew
eral men living in the same house to Mrs
Rice apartments. The cat no sooner saw
the men than it gave up its frantic efforts
at leaping at the door and rushed at the
newcomers.
The men attacked the cat with heavy
sticks and kicked her until, finally worst
ed she rushed out of the room and up 10
the roof of the house. The men fol-
lowed her.
When the cat reached the roof size en-
countered another cat which she attacked
nothing daunted. Having made the fur
fly from the back of her new victim, she
escaped her pursuers by running across
the roofs of the neighboring houses ana
disappeared.
Policeman Sturke of the East One Hun,
dred and Fourth street station was called
in and found the little boy in a piuiul
condition. His right arm and leg were sG.
frightfully lacerated. The officer sent for
an ambulance from the Harlem Hospll3i'
and Surgeon Opdyke responded to the call
He found the boy in a. half-fainting con
dition as the result of pain and fright.
Upon his limbs were no less than forty
bleeding wounds.
The surgeon cauterized the wounds ana
gave restoratives to the sufferer. The lJ-
tie fellow stood the painful cauterizauon
manfully.
The cat, a large Maltese, belonged to
Mrs. Strass, who lives on the top floor d
the house. Some four weeks ago MIS-;
Rice left the door of her room open ana
the car strayed in and gave birth to 2
litter of kittens. Then Mrs. Rice allow
the cat to remain, although the animal
was ugly to all who approached the XII
tens
Yesterday morning a dog passed throu5A
the hallway of Mrs. Rice's floor, and lA5
cat attacked him, scratching and bltlhi
him badly about the head and BODY az
causing him to run bowling down stall
to the street. The cat was madden
with rage at the intrusion Of the l97.
and in a rage ran back into Mrs. hlte
rooms and sprang upon the baby:
After the doctor had gone, the polceIlla.'
made away with the kittens But Nj.
Rice dares not stay in her rooms. ear
ing that the cat, in seeking for her youI--'
may return, she has taken Petuge W.
little Michael in the home of a nelghooI,
Before he left the doctor said ne 90
not expect any serious results as 81
sequence of the cats assault on. the CO.
as the animal evidently was not sun Ter
from hydrophobia, but had been renee
savage temporarily by the approach "a
the dog to her litter of kittens IAN +
At last ACCOUNTS the cat was SUI
large. although the police and nelghpoi-
are on guard waiting her return
Washington swells were astonished -
see that the Duke Of MARLBOROUGH wears
red satin necktie.