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Show WOLVES WHIPPED BY ZOO KEEPER Conquers Beasts With Bare Hands in Atlanta Park. Atlnnta, Ga. The story of a desperate desper-ate battle with two mad wolves was revealed when J. V. Camp, animal keeper at the Grant park zoo, appeared ap-peared at Grady hospital to take the I'asteur treatment. According to Camp, he entered a ease in which the two wolves were confined. While lie was stooping In the act of arranging food for the animals an-imals he heard a snarl behind him. He wheeled around just in time to knock one of the beasts to the ground as it leaped at him. Infuriated, both wolves attacked him and for several minutes he fought them with his bare hands. The wolves kept a position in the cage which prevented pre-vented him from escaping. Fighting desperately against the repeated attacks at-tacks of the animals, which sought to to rend him with their powerful fangs, he finally succeeded in stunning one of them with a blow from his fist. Fighting the other wolf all the while, he staggered to the open cage door and escaped. Mr. Camp, whose address was given as 131 Burns street, suffered only a severe laceration on his right hand, which was dressed at Grady hospital. One of the wolves died, and an examination exami-nation by state physicians revealed that it was suffering from hydrophobia. hydropho-bia. The other animal was then or dered killed. |