LIONS AT LARGE
BUTCHER TORN TO PIECES. FRENCH VILLAGE TRAGEDY. (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, November 22. Two lions tore up fhe floor of their cage and escaped from a menagerie at Avigon. One tore a butcher to pieces in the main street, despite rescue efforts by a neighbour named Picolet. The lion abandoned his prey and sprang at Picolet, who threw himself down and feigned death. The lion sniffed the body, and departed, to the relief of the horrorstricken villagers who were watching from their win-> dows. The second lion attacked a farmer named Ywanich, tearing his arm, Ywanich scared it up a tree by flashing an electric torch, in its face. Police later shot both animals.
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Northern Advocate, 23 November 1935, Page 6
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117LIONS AT LARGE Northern Advocate, 23 November 1935, Page 6
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