The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-11-07
A Woman Before An Audience
OF Five Hundred
TILE FURIOUS BEAST
Sinks Her Teeth in the Tanners Cheeks
as She Puts Her Head La
Her. Jaws .'and is Res.
cued by Hard
Work.

Mne. Emm6 ScheH, q professional
Hon tanner, famed almost as much for
her beauty ss for her daring, stopped
TO wave q greeting to her cheering
audielcs before she put her head
Sithin the jaws Of a Honess at Huber's
Museum In New York on Thursday
aVaning, and that second OF dely saw
ed her life. The New York American
gives the following account OF the 1n-
cident:
The great rows OF teeth snapped
together and Nine. Schell lis In Belle
Vue Hospital with both cheeks nearly
bitten of by the maddened beast and
her beauty is 80 nar1ed that she viii
asver euter lion csgs again.
Mue. Schell's appearance has been
5 drawing card at the Fourteenth
street museum for two weeks. Sew
sral times each day she has entered
the cage to compel the non and lion
sss to do tne tricks shs had taught
them. Hsr daring was considered
marvellous, for the two beasts she
played With are only half tanned, and
the loness especially is fsrocioGs.
Eirly last evening, before an audi.
encs OF 500 persons, nearly all Of them
women and children, Nine. Schen en-
5ered the cage With nothing but
short whip 20 protect her. AS she
opened the door, the female sprang at
neT, but she coHed the brute with
ship lashes, closed the gate and be-
gan to put the lions through their
PAGES.
Though both growled and ruared at
times, both obsyed the commands Of
the nenacing whip and Nine Scnell
set her audience into q whirlwind Of
applause when she mode both beast
N single file, walk over her >p1ostrate
oody, then leap back sgain to the
corner Of the cage, whsre they
obediently stood upon theif hind
legs.
The climax comes in the finals
when the lion tanner drives the lion
ess into the centre OF the stage, open
LIS jaws with her hands and thrusts
ner unprotected head inside.
It took minutes Of proddins by her
assistant outside the den to force the
angry honess from her corner Wednes-
day night. Then she sprang out with
; CREST leap and would have felled
her mistress with a blow OF her mas.
sive paw Il . stinging blow Of the
whip had not subdued her. But even
IS she raised herself sulhly upon her
ear legs, SIZE snapped saVagly at her
Gamer and the whip had to be used
unspartDgly before she was again
oroughs Into submission.
Then Nine. Schell opened the huge
mouth With her hands, ran her fingers
along the two lows Of glistening teeth
and bent her head to thrust 1t between
tne menacing jaws.
She stopped to bow smilingly at
the audience and wave her hand,
as all performers do before attempt
ing q hazardous feat.
The bow and the smile saved ner
life for at that instant the Honess,
with . fearful roar, thrust it's paws
upon her, shoulder and hurled Its
seeth In her lefs cheek.
The woman shrisked and gtagger-
ed back: the beast lunged, with opan
isws, az her head sgain and tore her
other cheek
Then, as it Was about to spring
upon her for the third time, she
threw up her hands and fell, uncon-
scious. The audience, horrihed, fsd
from the building.
Nine. Schell would have been torn
to pieces but the lion, who had been
srowling in bis corner, sprang for.
ward, and attacked the frenzied Lion
ess. While they fought gnasoing
and clawing at each other across the
cage, women in the audience faiQted,
shue even the men bolred for the
street.
A moment later the tanners assist.
ant, revolver and prodding pole In
oand, had thrown open the door and
dashed In. He fired q dozen shots at 5he
raging lions, jaboed win the pole
and succeeded IN forcing them apart
and into diff srent corners.
Then he carried Gne UNCONSCIOUS
9oman outside and attaches OF tna
,ausaum su uumoned BeleVu7 amou'
ance. Nine. Sohell was Carried TO
che hospital, Still unconscious. Sur
zeons put twelve stitches IN the gap,
.ne wound In her right cheek sad
s1S hteen In the torn flesh OF tne 9th
ssr. They said she would recover.
Bon Weevu Marching On.
sesrch to determine Wnether the