A DRUNKEN BABOON.

Evening Star, Issue 10901, 8 April 1899, Page 1

A DRUNKEN BABOON.

A remarkable story of the antics of a drunken baboon comes from Omaha, U.S. The baboon, it seems, was a member of a trained animal show that was doing a " turn " at Creighton Theatre, and the animal by some means got loose and invaded the stage one afternoon. Being muzzled, it was harmless, but also being large and ugly it frightened those upon whom it chanced to bnrst. The stage hands tried to catch the animal, but this only served to make the creature angry, and it dashed at its pursuers, seizing them with its great hands and throwing them about as though they were children. Finally, it dashed 'through the door of the theatre, and into the cafe adjoining. The bar-tender fled for his life, and the baboon leaped behind the bar, where it drank portions of a bottle of whisky, beer, brandy, and other liquors, then hurled the bottles at the mirrors, and at length rushed back into the theatre with bottles under both arms and grasped in each hand. These missiles the ape hurled in every direction, smashing three long mirrors in the principal dressing rooms, and destroying a number of costumes by tearing them to bits. For half an hour the animal raged thus without hindrance, at the end of which time its keeper arrived, and succeeded in chaining it np.