Determined not to forego a shilling which could be obtained by the
exposure of an animal to torture, Wombwell in the same week submitted
another of his lions to be baited.
_The Times_, in giving an account of this renewed brutality, after a
forcible expression of its “disgust and indignation at the cruelty of
the spectacle, and the supineness of the magistracy,” proceeds thus:
“Wombwell has, notwithstanding the public indignation which accompanied
the exposure of the lion Nero to the six dogs, kept his word with the
lovers of cruel sports by a second exhibition. He matched his ‘Wallace,’
a fine lion, cubbed in Scotland, against six of the best dogs that could
be found. Wallace’s temper is the very opposite of that of the gentle
Nero. It is but seldom that he lets even his feeders approach him, and
he soon shows that he cannot reconcile himself to familiarity from any
creature not of his own species. Towards eight o’clock the factory-yard
was well attended, at 5_s._ each person, and soon after the battle
commenced. The lion was turned from his den to the same stage on which
Nero fought. The match was--1st. Three couples of dogs to be slipped at
him, two at a time--2d. Twenty minutes or more, as the umpires should
think fit, to be allowed between each attack--3d. The dogs to be handed
to the cage once only. Tinker, Ball, Billy, Sweep, Turpin, Tiger.”