WHIPSNADE TRAGEDY
MAN IN LIONS’ DEN LIFE FOR A HAT [by CABLE PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, June 8. When a friend’s hat blew into a lion’s cage at the Whipsnade Zoo, Stanley Stenson, a van drivex - , employed by the zoo, climbed the barrier, crawled along the interior railings, and attempted to reach the hat. Thereupon foux - lions sprang up and seized Stenson’s arm. Several men tried to free him, but the lions, infuriated by the blood, maintained their grip. One lion wrenclxed Stenson from the hands of his rescuers. He then fell, head first, 17 feet on to the concrete floor of the pit. The lions begaxx mauling him as keepers rushed to the scene. They kept two lions at bay with poles, but were compelled to lire revolvers before the others were driven off. ' A knot of spectators, among whom were fainting and screaming women, watched, horrified as the keepers compelled the snarling beasts to retreat. Stenson’s body was removed fox - an inquest. A doctor was uncertain whether his death was due to a fractured skull or whethex - the lions finally .killed him.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 June 1934, Page 7
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