Worcester, Mass., June 13—(AP)—While nearly fifty people looked on horror-stricken, Gustaf A. Bottcher battled with a bear on exhibition at a gasoline station in Northboro to rescue his four year old daughter Olive who had been pulled into the pen by the animal.
The child was feeding candy to the bear when it suddenly reached over and grasping her dress with his claws pulled her into the roped enclosure where he was chained. The father leaped into the pit but did not relieve the child from the bear’s embrace until she had been severely clawed and bitten. She was taken to a Worcester hospital where her condition was reported serious due to the shock.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, June 14, 1926
