Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — A Horrible Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Horrible Tragedy.

A horrible tragedy took place not long since in a menagerie at Lyons. A clerk had the entree of the menagerie, and was on friendly terms with the staff of the show. He made op his mind to be photographed In the central lions’cage, and went to the menagerie without the knowledge of the proprietor in order to carry oat his intention . He entered the cage, which was, of course, empty, and while the photographer was getting ready his camera he approached the neighboring cage, in whieh aa enormous lion, named Romulus, lay sleeping. He did all he oouht to excite the animal through the bare,and white pressing against the partition inadvertently opened the trap door which separated the two-cages. The lion bounded through the opening, and, springing upon the unfortunate clerk, seized his head in its mouth, crushing it terribly. The young fellow was killed almost instantaneously-