Show cju ua pound gound rodent turns on five persons and leaps upon childs back RL A BADLY BITTEN L quantities had been cd in large and ev missed from the pantry the house was cry ery night filled with peculiar noises york A ten pound twenty now members of 0 fought five live it C b rat ted family all M over the ground gro und foor floor of in east new york the oth heir home day it I 1 t was killed only after a r erste betru et ruggle agle in which one worna woma ep as badly bitten a and nd another daiv a into hysteria the rat pu put t to flight terence mc alaa of 48 montauk Alon avenue his 0 ind and three children mrs mc alc elma Is III as rs the result of her fright ad d her daughter mae la Is buffering suffering MB m bites the mckennan McKen nas nae have believed for ome a weeks past that their home was incited b by I 1 a plague of rats food rood i I 1 urge arge quantities was missed from ie 0 pantry paltry and every night the house a as filled ailed with noises the other night mckenna his wife id nd the three child children ren joseph juseph aas is and aae decided to begin war i the pests they put a trap in the butchen enand and went into the dining roomi room await results they heard two to or three loud loud trumps naps and rushed out the trap was u empty but two potatoes and a cabbage lay in the middle of tho the door 01 the Alc mckennas Hennas could not be we T that rats bad had dragged the vege bibles me from their bin after an hour of waiting the tarn farn lil heard beard the trap click they again went int into the kitchen and saw an mordou rat sitting aside b alde the trap first at one and then the other th glare ilare of its ee made mrs airs mc la hysterical its of running to escape the it rushed shed at the astonished family they fled the rat jumped first nt at 40 and nd then e another nother anth its knifelike knife like ilke shone as it lt snapped its jaws ceph eph mckenna picked up a re r from froin the sideboard and fired al rat times but missed ee kallman ilman was passing and heard heart ahk shots he ile ra ran raa a into the tho house gi abbed up a shovel and joined in the fight the rat had bad just ade a de a spring at atae BIc mckenna Kenna she jumped atop tha the dining table the rut rit leaped after her and bit hor her twice 1 on the bak and ami arm joseph DIC mckenna Kenna started to attach the animal with his hire bire hands when ballman swung the shovel he ile bit hit the rate squarely on tho the head and killed it A physician was called to attend the injured women namen |