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Show TRAINER rJOUQHTfroR LIFE. I Wrestling Bout With Lion Turns to Grim Reality. An nthlolo named Rey, connected with tho Dostock animal show, had a narrow escape from death ono day this week, says a Paris special to tho Kansas City ,i Journal, Ho was en-gaged en-gaged In putting the wrestling lion, Brutus, through his daily practice, when tho bruto unexpectedly fastened its teeth In his Jacket The trainer stopped wrestling and tried to disengage disen-gage himself by withdrawing from tho jacket and leaving It In (ho lion's possession. pos-session. But ho wasi'unable to do this, and Brutus, wlthouot becoming actually savage, warmed ,to tho encounter nnd began to tear tho trainer obout tho Bhoulders and .sides. Although bleeding bleed-ing freely from 'fifty wounds, Iley, who Is a powerful, athletic young fellow, kept hlB headj find, realizing that ho wub at tho mercy of the bruto If ho fell, kept him off as best ho could. By this timo Mr. Dostock and his assistants had gathered around tho cage trying to rescue tho trainer and watched with apprehension tho realistic realis-tic combat between tho mnn and tho Hon. Tho wrestling bout, which had commenced In the usual playful manner, man-ner, had developed Into a grim contest, con-test, in which ono of tho combatants was fighting for his life, and for fully two minutes his fate seemed sealed. Rey kept up tho unequal contest, but a further difficulty in tho way of his rescue was the fact that in a cago communicating with that of Brutus a companion lion was making desperato efforts to force an entry through a half open door. At last Brutus was lassooed by Mr. Bostock and dragged into tho adjoining adjoin-ing cage. After Rey had been bandaged ban-daged In tho Hippodrome infirmary ho was taken to tho Rothschild hospital, whoro tho doctors said if blood poisoning poison-ing did not sot in, they hoped to savo him. |