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Jennypeg
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A Lion on the Lammas
replied on: 6/27/2008 1:35:28 PM

“During a visit to Heanor of Messrs. Bostock and Wombwell's Menagerie, in 1910 or 1911, a boy named Arthur Moore, aged around 10, from Loscoe Road, Heanor, was mauled by a lion. Arthur got under the guard rail and went up to the lion's cage, which was on Heanor Market, and teased the lion, which grabbed him through the bars of the cage. The boy managed to get free, but had severe lacerations on his back.”

Robert is this the same lion story? The name of the menagerie and the year are different but the boy’s name is the same, I also have a notice his father John Moore placed in the paper thanking everyone.

MENAGERIE INCIDENT AT HEANOR
BOY CLAWED BY A LIONESS
RIPLEY & HEANOR NEWS
24TH OCTOBER 1913
Some excitement was caused in Sedgwick’s menagerie in Heanor Market place on Monday night.
Arthur Moore, aged 11, son of a collier living on Milward Road, ventured within the ropes, which ran round the front of the cages. He was caught by a lioness, drawn close to the bars, and badly clawed down the back and on the chest.
Richard Sedgwick, the trainer, armed with a fork, induced the animal to release her hold. The injured boy was attended to by Dr. Turton, who stitched the wounds, after which he was conveyed home on a stretcher. Happily no serious results are anticipated.
Previous to the accident the boy was warned by police constable Winfield and the animal keeper to keep from under the ropes.

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