Mauled by a leopard

At the fair of Falkirk, an exhibition of wild beasts was made in a caravan, in the market-place, when a girl of about 3 years of age, in the charge of her sister, who is about 17 years of age, while witnessing it, was seized by a leopard, which (though every means that the circumstances of the case afforded were used to save the child) lacerated the right arm to that degree that amputation from the shoulder was found necessary. It is expected, however, that the child will live. As the animal was properly secured by close iron grating, it appears that the accident happened wholly from what may be considered an inattention on the part of the girl, for the purpose of gratifying the curiosity of her little sister, by suffering her to put her hand forth unobserved.