HAND-TO-PAW FIGHT
WILD BEAST HUNT
PANTHERS, POULTRY AND
POLICE
There was an exciting time in the little coast town of Lecamp, between Havre and Dieppe, France.
A circus was arriving shortly after 5 o'clock, when an accident occurred to a motor caravan, and a leopard and three panthers escaped into the streets and away to the open.
While the police organised a hunt the four animals were helping themselves to the poultry on a little farm on the outskirts of the town. A boy of 13 years, who came out of the farmhouse to see what was the matter, was attacked and badly wounded by one of the panthers.
One of the gendarmes who had been sent to shoot the animals found that his carbine was empty. -.
He had an exciting hand-to-paw fight with the panther.
In the end he felled it by a blow with the butt end of the gun.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3256, 21 September 1928, Page 5
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152HAND-TO-PAW FIGHT Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3256, 21 September 1928, Page 5
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