Mad Skunk Bites Laborer

1916

Victim of Animal's Attack Made Dangerously Ill.

JUDKINS, Texas — Bennie Adams of Judkins was bitten in the nose by a skunk while asleep in his bedding in a camp where he was helping to drill a well for a ranchman. Young Adams was soundly asleep and was awakened by a vicious bite upon his nose. He yelled as he leaped to his feet, calling for assistance while the skunk which had thoroly fastened his teeth in the boy's nose tenaciously held on and continued to do so until choked loose. Adams was sent to Pasteur Institute at Austin and was reported dangerously ill by the physicians who telegraphed his parents to come.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 11.