TIGER'S LEAP
BOY IS KILLED IN ZOO.
(Sun Special.)
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday.
.Alfred Hill, aged 12, and three venturesome playmates climbed a twelvefoot fence to enter the Zoo jungle where they planned, to'take make-believe movies of various wild beasts.
Alfred was creeping along, hunter fashion, when a tiger leaped upon him. He struggled manfully, stabbing the animal with a pocketknife he carried, and was rescued by his companion, Fred Marvin, the only one of the boys in the gang who carried a revolver. By curious good-luck his first shot pierced the tiger’s brain and killed him, but Alfred was so badly mauled that he died."
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1930, Page 5
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