RAT ATTACKS BABY IN CRIB

Published in the Alexandria Daily Time Tribune

October 27, 1912

RAT ATTACKS BABY IN CRIB

Sinks Teeth In Wrist Before Beaten Off by Mother--Just Misses Artery.

New York--Awakened by the cries of her seven-months-old baby, Mrs George Bohland jumped from her bed just in time to beat off a huge gray rat which had leaped into the child's crib and fastened its teeth in its wrist, the fang missing an artery, a physician later said, by a sixteenth of an inch.

Mrs. Bohland struck the rat, which jumped to the floor and ran about the room.  Screaming in terror, she called to her husband.  He jumped from bed, seized a chair and gave chase.  After most of the furniture had been knocked over in the scramble the rodent escaped.