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TIGER IN GIRL’S BEDROOM

ESCAPE FROM CIRCUS IN N.S.W.

(Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Seven-year-old Mavis Hallcroft awoke at her home in Narrandera, in south-western New South Wales, earlj' this morning, and screamed to her mother that a big dog was licking her face.

It was not a dog; it was a tiger. While the child lay petrified with fear of the “big dog,” her father shot at the tiger through the bedroom window.

Throughout the ordeal the girl’s three-year-old sister. Fay, slept by her side, and her three brothers, aged between four and eight, slept about 12 feet away.

Shot through the nose with a .22 rifle, the bleeding tiger leapt off the bed. ran through an open door and disappeared in the darkness. Police and Mr Hallcroft later recaptured it. The tiger had escaped from its cage at a circus camped about a mile from Mr Hallcroft’s home. The cage bars and lock had been tampered with, and police are searching for men believed to have deliberately released the tiger. The tiger is being treated at the circus for its wound.

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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27206, 25 November 1953, Page 11

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TIGER IN GIRL’S BEDROOM Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27206, 25 November 1953, Page 11

TIGER IN GIRL’S BEDROOM Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27206, 25 November 1953, Page 11

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