ALLIGATORS' ADVENTURE
YOUTH WANTED TO KEEP THEM AS PET« Pleading guilty at Manchester City Police Court to stealing two live alligators, ' valued at £4 10s. and- two glass fish pans, valued at £X 12s 6d, from Belle Vue Zoo. Manchester, Jame* Whitworth, 19, of Eusholme, Manchester, and George W. Ford, 22, of Bredbury, Cheshire, were placed ,oa probation for 12 mouths. Inspector Yarwood told the Bench that in a statement Whitworth said that after wrapping the' reptiles. \a oloth they took them to a house and let them walk about the floor. Later they carried them to his (Whitworth’s) house, and after putting them in tho bath placed them m a cupboard. When they saw the report in the newspapers that the alligators had been stolen he wanted to take them to tho Zoo headkeeper’e front door, leave thorn on the front step, knock, and run away.
Finally, they dropped them over some railings, .and Inspector Yarwood said he went with Whitworth to tho spot where a sack containing the alligators, which were dead, was lying in the snow.
Whitworth told the magistrates: “ I was interested in the alligators and wanted to keep them in my room as pots.” During the hearing the dead alligators were on a table ia the court.
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Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 11
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212ALLIGATORS' ADVENTURE Evening Star, Issue 23208, 6 March 1939, Page 11
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