Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1910 — FIGHTS WITH BABOON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIGHTS WITH BABOON.

At Portland, Oregon, struggling tor his life with an infuriated baboon, Fred Wilson, of Brazil, Ind., a trainer employed by an animal show, fought desperately for half an hour with Kokomo, a pink-tailed baboon, that attacked him in the cage. The savage beast clutched Wilson's throat, but so long as the trainer could keep on his feet he had the best of the fight. At length he fell, exhausted from the loss of blood and strain,, and the animal gnawed at his legs in a frightful manner. A score of monkeys in the. cage kept up a shrill screaming during the progress of the fight and this attracted the attention of other employes, who rescued Wilson.