LEOPARD LOOSE AT ZOO
THRILLS AMONG SPECTATORS A QUEUE THAT MELTED A leopard which escaped from its cage at. a zoo in a pleasure park on the promenade at Morecambe, a Lancashire watering place, provided thrills for a crowd of onlookers before it was caught. Just before the zoo opened for business a hoy saw that the cage door was open. He bolted, but had the presence of mind to shut the main door. The attention of two girls in the pay box was attracted by the electric lights in a corridor being switched on and off, and they saw one of the monkeys climbing about the switch, with the leopard in pursuit. The girls telephoned to the police station, and two policemen and an inspector of *he Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrived armed with a gun, chloroform and a fishing net. The leopard by this time had reached the top of a high cage, and the proprietor was about to order it to be shot when it was docidijd to drench it with buckets of water. This was done, the net was thrown over the leopard, and it was dragged hack to its cage. A large qucuo which had formed outsido the zoo had vanished by the time the leopard was captured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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