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Show CATCHES LION IN HIS COAT v Unarmed Colorado Trapper and Beast Fall From Tree, but He Holds Game. Meeker, Colo. To deliberately climb a tree, unarmed, in pursuit of a mountain lion, follow the beast out to the farthermost limb, and, as it sprang at him, catch it headforemost in the folds of a coat, is a feat of daring dar-ing performed by Richard Tovey, a trapper. When the beast sprang Tovey barely had time to straighten up and open his coat, fanlike. The lion struck head foremost, a gnashing, scratching mass, squarely within its folds. The impact caused the trapper trap-per to lose his balance and the two fell to the ground, but Tovey did not loosen his hold. Neither Tovey nor the lion was hurt. |