Monkey on Roof Tops

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7296, 5 August 1930, Page 9

Monkey on Roof Tops

ESCAPE PROM HOSPITAL. A solitary monkey in the pathological department of the London Hospital, smitten with the Whitsuntide feeling, gavo the doctors, nurses, and students of the hospital an exciting Saturday. Left alone in the laboratory, with the prospect of a dull week-end before him, the monkey decided to liven things up by an excursion. He removed a broken pane of glass from tho skylight and escaped on to the roof. The alarm was raised, and in a short time hundreds of people gathered in the street to watch his antics. Nobody in the crowd wanted to lay hands on the monkey for fear that he might have been inoculated with sorij' deadly disease germs and that a bite might necessitate spending Whitsuntide in the hospital. The police finally set all fears at rest by getting in touch with the superintendent of the laboratory, who assured them that the monkey was per-i fectly harmless. At 10 o’clock the little animal had established himself in the trees in a cemetary at the rear of the synagogue, and there spent tho night.