Spunkmeyer was a famous circus lion tamer in his day but upon taking the position of band conductor he was fired by the angry circus owner but no one could get him to tell the tale of why he was sacked until many years later. It turned out that the circus owner would have been quite happy for William to do both jobs but he discovered that the lions Spunkmeyer was taming were in fact freaks of nature. They were Gerbils crossed with Mountain Lions. Although fearsome to look at the beasts were no more dangerous than a tortoise who was having a bad day. So enraged by this the circus owner sacked him. To help make ends meet William took a job in the Chutney mines but during the Great War whilst assisting with the war effort he was caught in a nasty chutney gas explosion. All his hair fell out and his teeth turned bright orange. Spunkmeyer died in 1921 in an home for injured chutney miners a broken man.
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