ZOO TIGRESS ESCAPES AT GLASGOW BUT IS SHOT
N.Z P.A.—Reuter (Rec 9.5) LONDON, Nov 5. A fully grown Bengal tigress escaped from her cage at Glasgow Zoo to-day. She mauled the head keeper. She was finally shot by the Zoo Director. The head keeper entered the cage, thinking that it was empty, when the tigress loomed at the door connecting the cage tn the animal walk. The tigress lept at him. A, CO-year-old gardener rushed into the cage and hit the tigress over the head with a, shovel, until it ran (nto the open. The monster bounded out inot the zoo grounds. There the Director shot it clown. Among the visitors to the zoo was an organised party of school girls, but there was nobody near the animals’ cage at the time. "■"r 1 _ i _ tj
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Grey River Argus, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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