POLECAT KILLS BABY
ATTACK IN PERAMBULATOR DISCOVERY BY MOTHER > LONDON, Jan. 2 A polecat attacked a baby, which died in a few hours in spite of a desperate fight by doctors to save its life.Mrs. Benjamin Frankel, the young wife of a well-known dance band player, went into the garden of her country home in Sussex to look at her seven-month-old daughter, sleeping in her perambulator. She heard a whimper and noticed blood on the child's face. She rushed into the house and telephoned for the doctor, and then rushed out again and picked the infant up. "As I did so," she says, "I felt a horrible wriggle among the woollen shawls, and the ferret-like head of a beast which was hidden under the clothes appeared and snapped at my fingers. I snatched the baby away and ran to the house. The polecat leaped out of the perambulator and chased me across the lawn. I ran into the house and slammed the door." Later the polecat was cornered and shot. It was a small dark brown animal.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22931, 8 January 1938, Page 11
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