From the March 30, 1910 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Sayville, L.I. — Florence Gamage, 14-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Gamage of this place, was allowed the range of the back door yard yesterday. The child was alone for a short time, and amused herself by thrusting bits of grass through the wire meshes of the rabbit hutch. The animals were eager to grasp the first evidences of spring, but the baby got her fingers wedged in the wire meshes and could not pull them out.

When the animals had devoured the herbage they began to gnaw at the ends of the baby’s imprisoned fingers.

The screams of the child brought the mother quickly to the rescue, who upon liberating her child’s hand found the end of one finger eaten through to the bone.”