Show WILDCAT FIGHTS TWO MEN FOR NEARLY AN HOUR Vicious Beast Takes Possession of Houses and Gives Fierce Battle Before re Being Slain of ot Miss Ella Bassett in Derby in a Conn Aug At 16 the home homo fierce and blood bloody struggle le it took two bodied able-bodied men armed with club nearly an nn hour to kill a wildcat which had Invaded the premises So exhausted d wn wa was ono one of oC the men that he fainted after alter the animal had been dispatched Miss Ba Bassett was surprised by the thc entrance of or the cat which h leaped In through an open window from the The intruder spit at the woman FO so angrily that she retreated upstairs Sanford P. P a neighbor responded to her call for tor help and entering the room started for tor the beast at once With Witha a snarl the animal had Just pounced upon Miss Ba Bassetts Bassett's large IRne pet cat and In Inan Inan an Rn instant broke Its Us neck as it Il would kill a arat rat This seemed to infuriate the thc beast and it 11 sprang at c Man and cat soon were ere flying Hying around the I room room the animal tearing Eldridge's Eldridges clothes and flesh and he striking it bl blow after blow with his club So for fOI half an nn hour the thc fight went on on shifting from the room sitting room to the parlor and back again until final finally RoBe Hollo A A. K Keeling a atrain atrain atrain train dispatcher came to aid aki The Thc two men final finally cornered the animal animal ani ant mal agaInst a piano and finished its nine lives lIVNI with ith a torrent of blows e and Keeling were badly badh scratched and torn on the face arms and hands and required medical assistance |