ON LIONS’ CAGE
DROP FROM ’PLANE TWO ENRAGED BEASTS Fire Brigade Called Out EXCITING MOMENTS CBy Icic f ruph—l*rt bs Aasu.—Copy right.) (Received 15, 1.1.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14. Dropping 1000 feet from an aeroplane at Leatherhead, a professional parachutist, Mr. Ben Turner, crashed through trees and landed on the top of a lions’ cage at Chessington Zoo. Two enraged beasts sprang at the top of the cage, savagely biting and clawing at the bars on which Turner stood, held fast by the entangled parachute. The zoo fire brigade was called out to quell the lions, and the trainer, armed with a blank cartridge revolver and a whip, entered the cage, but was driven back.
While the lions’ attention was diverted Turner extricated himeelf from his harness and reached safety.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 5
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