MAKE-BELIEVE MOVIES
« Boy’s Fight With Tiger Alfred Hill, aged 12, of Los Angeles, and three venturesome playmates, climbed a 12-foot fence to enter the zoo jungle, where they planned to take make-believe movies of various wild beasts. - ' L Alfred was creeping along, hunter fashion, when a tiger leaped upon him. He struggled manfully, stabbing ,the animal with a pocketknife he carried, and was rescued by his companion, Fred. Marvin, the only one of the boys in the gang who carried a revolver.
By curious good-luck his first shot pierced the tiger’s brain and killed him, but Alfred was so badly mauled that he diefl-
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 20, 18 October 1930, Page 22
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104MAKE-BELIEVE MOVIES Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 20, 18 October 1930, Page 22
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