Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-31
LIONESS BITES WOMAN
MADDENED BEAST MARS BEAUTY
OF tanner.

A dispatch from New York SAYS: Nine
Emma Schell. a professional lion tanner.
FAMED almost as much for her beauty as for
her daring, stopped to wave greeting to
her cheering audience before she put her
mead within the jaws of a lioness at HUI
ber's Museum last evening and that second
of delay saved her life
The great rows Of teeth snapped together
and Nine Schell Is In Bellevue Hospital
Win both cheeks nearly bitten off by the
maddened beast and her beauty is so mar
red that she will never enter a lion cage
again.
Nine. Schells appearance has been a
drawing card at the Fourteenth Street MIL
scum for two weeks. Several times each
day she has entered the cage to compel the
lion and l1onesS to do the tricks she had
taught them. Her daring was considered
marvellous, for the two beasts she PLAYED
with are only half tanned, and the lioness
especially Is ferocious.
Five Hundred See Act.
Early last evening, before an audience of
five hundred persons. nearly all of them
women and children, Nine. Schell entered
the cage with nothing but a short whip to
protect her. AS she opened the door the
female sprang at her, but She cowed the
brute with whip lashes. closed the gate and
began to put the lions through their PAGES.
Though both growled and roared at times,
both obeyed the commands of the menacing
whip and Nine. Schell set her audience into
a whirlwind Of applause when she made
both beasts. in single file. walk over her
PROSTATE body. then leap back again to
the corner Of the cage, where they ODE
diently stood upon their hind legs
The climax comes in the finale, when the
lion tanner drives the lioness into the center
Of the stage, opens it's jaws with her hands
and thrusts her unprotected head inside.
Lioness Maddened at Climax
1t took minutes Of prodding by her as
sistant outside the den to force the angry
honess from her corner last night. Then
she sprang out with a great leap and
would have felled her mistress with a blow
of her massive paw If singing blow of
the whip had not subdued her. But even
as she raised herself sulkily upon her rear
legs, she snapped savagely at her tanner,
and the whip had to be used unsparingy
before she was again brought into submits
sion
Then Nine. Schell opened the huge mouth
with her hands ran her fingers along the
two rows of glistening teeth and bent her
head to thrust it between the menacing
Jaws.
She stopped to bow smiltngly at the eau-
dlence and wave her hand, as all perform
ers do before attempting a hazardous feat
The bow and the smile saved her life, for
at that instant the uoness, with a fearful
roar, thrust its paws down upon her Shout
der and buried its teeth in her left cheen.
The woman shrieked and staggered back;
the beast lunged. with open jaws. at her
head again and tore her other cheek.
Lion Attacks Lioness.
Then, as 1t was about to spring upon her
third time. she threw up her hands and
fell, unconscious. The audience Mortified
fed from the building.
Nine. Schell would have been torn to
pieces. but the lion. who had been growing
in his corner. sprang forward, and attacked
the frenZied lioness While they fought,
gnashing and clawdng at each other across
the cage, women in the audience tainted,
while even the men bofted for the street
moment later the tanners assistant re-
volver and prodd1ng pole On hand, had
thrown open the door and dashed in. He
fired a dozen shots at the raging Hons.
jabbed with the pole and succeeded in fore
ing them apart and into ddherent corners.
Then he carried the unconscious woman
outside and attaches OF the museum sum-
moned a Bellevue ambulance. Nine Schell
was carried to the hospital, still uncon-
scious Surgeons put twelve stitches in the
gaping wound in her right cheek and eigh-
teen In the torn flesh Of the other. They
said she would recover