Animals: She-Bear

Last fortnight attendants at the Thompson Park Zoo, Watertown, N. Y., heard the screams of a man, the roars of an angry bear. Rushing to the bear cage, they at first saw no man, no beast. Then they perceived protruding from a cave in the rear of the cage, a man’s feet.

Reconstructing the picture, after shooting the bear, they saw Keeper Emerson Joyce enter the cage, forgetting to drop the steel door which would have confined the bear to the cave. As he leaned over to arrange the feeding pans the bear slipped up, grasped him with her powerful forelegs, crushed him to death. Thus, she evened the scores. A few days prior her two cubs had been taken away from her.