A Circus Act Turned Deadly
Sounds like everyone’s worst nightmare, right? For a 13-year-old boy living in San Francisco in 1854, it was reality. On the evening of January 10, 1854, a small Spanish theatrical performance took place on Stockton Street. A boy named William Snyder, or William Bernard as some papers called him, was selling candy and peanuts when he was attacked and killed by a clown.