Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1910 — SAVES TRAINER’S LIFE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAVES TRAINER’S LIFE.

At New York the sharp teeth and claws of Clayton, a leopard, nearly cost the life of Mrs. Pauline Russelle, his trainer, but the length and strength of his tail saved her. Clayton would not perform. Mrs. Russelje prodded him with an iron bar and called to her assistant for aid. In the instant of turning her head to call, the leopard leaped. He bofls the woman to the ground and stood over her, growling and lashing his tail. It was then that the quick-witted assistant, reaching into the cage, grabbed Clayton’s tail, took a double hitch around the bars of the cage with it, and rescued Mrs. Russelle.