LEOPARD AT LARGE
Holidaymakers Ordered To Stay Indoors
LONDON, January 10.
The police ordered women and children indoors tonight while nearly the whole male population in the holiday town of Paignton, Devonshire, were hunting a leopard that had escaped from a private zoo after mauling its keeper. The whole of Devonshine was warned by radio, and mobile police went scouring round, with special constables standing by armed ready, for action at. any point where the animal was sighted.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 9
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78LEOPARD AT LARGE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 9
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