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PARACHUTIST’S PERIL DROPS ON TO LIONS’ CAGE FIRE BRIGADE TO RESCUE (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. Dropping 1000 feet from an aeroplane at Leatherhead, a professional parachutist, Ben Turner, crashed through trees and landed on top of a lion’s cage at the Chessington (Surrey) Zoo. Two enraged beasts sprang at the top of the cage, severely biting and clawing the bars on which Turner stood, held fast by his entangled parachute.
The zoo fire brigade was called our. to quell the lions. A trainer, armed with a blank cartridge and a revolver and whip, entered the cage, but was driven back. While the lions’ attention was dive’led, Turner extiicated himself from his harness, and reached safety.
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Northern Advocate, 15 September 1934, Page 10
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