The evening world., 1903-04-30
PONY IN FURY
ATTACKS GIRL.
Enraged Animal Pursues Child
Upstairs in Flat, Tearing Her
Clothing and Striking Vicious.
Iy at Her.

A clergyman's pony yesterday after
moor chased Grace Mulane, six years
old, OF No. 1854 East Seventy-eighth
street, up a fight Of stairs to the second
floor of a f~iat-house. He tore the child's
clothing, bit her legs and. caught in the
narrow hall Of the house, attempted to
paw down the door Of the room in which
the child had been dragged by a woman
to prevent her being killed by the In
furiated animal.
With ! er sister Evelyn, two years her
senior. and Ethel Leipshutz, her own
age, Grace was on the steps of No. l64
when a pony, rfderless, with the stirrups
OF the saddle flying In the air and fol-
lowed by a crowd. turned into the street
from Lexington avenue.
Frightened at the sight OF the run
away. the little girls fed up the four
steps in front to the porch that extends
across the front OF tho house. Evelyn
ran into the house No. 166 and the W
little ones into the hallway of the house
No. l6l.
The pony. which was coming down the
street heal the curb. suddenly. turned
to the pavement and took q leap up
the stoop.
She Ran Upstairs.
Screaming, little Grace ran up the
flight of stairs leading to the second
floor. Her companion tried to get up
but the pony. which had landed on the
stoop and halfway inside the front door
at the first jump, crowded her back.
He let 20 with his heels and the Liep-
shutz child fell back. having received a
kick. 1t was a glancinS blow and, more
frightened than hurt. she ran from the
place screaming that the pony was Eat
ing Grace.
Like a horse trained to tricks the pony
went up the stairs. He caught the hem
Of the child's frock in his teeth and
tried TO drag her back. The terrified
screams OF the little one could be heard
on the outside and by the tenants In
the house.
There was no p~layfulness In the at
tack Of tbe animal, as It was a vicious
assault. and when those behind tried to
reach the pony ne made a kick at them.
Rescued just in Time.
Up the first flight OF stairs lives Mrs.
Guessing. She saw the child's peril. and
when the little one was near enough
she seized her and dragged her into her
apartments. TIT pony had gained the
floor. and the door that was closed after
the little girl and the bolt shot wa shut
In the animals face.
Infatuated, the pony stood upon his
hind legs and paved at the doo The
iron-shod hoofs scraped of the paint and
made deep dents, while inside Mrs.
Guessing tried to calm the child's fears
and tell her she vas safe. as the little
one. terrdr-strlcken and unable to do
more than sob. chung to her.
Pony mt i.ast Qnieted.
Outside the crowd heard that the pony
had reached the floor above. An Ital-
ian coal dealer was the hrst 20 reacn
him. At that timo he had quit his
attack 1907 the hall door and backed
down into a narrow hallway. where mis-
l:oofs were beating a tattoo upon an
airshaft that extends from the base
ment to the roof. The plaster that was
about the shaft was raining down INFO
the cellar, 30 that the 9anitress. Mrs.
BlIlinger, who had taken refuge there
with her chhd when the pony came upon
the sideWaik, fled 90 the street.
The man who had assembled the stairs
ana TO reach the head OF the pom
ana lake hin By the nose. He became
auIet at once and offered no objection
when backed down the hall. turned
around and headed for the stairs. There
he descended like a horse used TO climb
ing stairs In u circus.
Mrs. Muians, the mother. OF little
Grace, said the pony's teAth had not
broken the skin on her daughter.
The pony was being ridden by John
dred and Forty-elEhth street. when II
threw him in front OF the Art Museum
at Eighty-seeond street and the East
Dnrtooclna was bruised by his fall. but
not hurt much, Il is SAID that the pony