Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — MAN TAESED CIRCUS GOAT [ARTICLE]

MAN TAESED CIRCUS GOAT

Narrowly Escaped Drowning After Being Butted Into Stream Aurora, Ind. —Chaw C. Suerman, age 36, had a narrow escape from drowning in Hogan Creek, being rescued from the stream unconscious. Suerman and several other men were teasing a "Billy’’ goat belonging to the Blackwell animal circus, show :ng near the creek, and he was attacked by the animal. Suerman was attempting to escape by running alongthe bank when the goat butted him off the embankment and he went down into about ten feet of water. The goat would not permit anyone to approach ’he stream until one of the show men arrived with a rope, and succeeded in getting Suerman out as he was sink ing for the third time. He was revlv ed by a physician and removed to his home.