TUSSLE WITH LION
DRAMA AT A CIRCUS London, Dec. 28. Depositing his overcoat on his father’s knee, a boy aged 15 raced down the aisle at a Manchester circus, jumped intd the ring, and sprang on the back of a five-year-old forest-bred lion. He seized a tuft of the lion’s mane and tried to hang on, but the lion pulled him to the ground. The boy’s parents screamed, but the people in the gallery thought it was part of the act. When attendants and the .lion’s trainer—a young woman—rushed to rescue the boy there were shouts of “Let him fight it out.” The boy escaped minus the seat of his pants and a slightly lacerated leg. The trainer, who was billed to wrestle with the lion, was bitten.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 5
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128TUSSLE WITH LION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 5
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