Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1915 — Wealthy Lafayette Man Scratched by Leopard. [ARTICLE]

Wealthy Lafayette Man Scratched by Leopard.

Leopold Dryfus, one of Lafayette’s wealthiest business men, is suffering from a badly lacerated arm, the result of trying to feed wild animals in a circus which was showing there. Dryfus, who conducts a packing plant and several meat markets, was feeding fresh meat to a leopard, when the animal stuck its paw through the cage and tore his arm open from the shoulder to the wrist. He was badly frightened and is from a nervous shock.