LEOPARD LOOSE AT ZOO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21784, 25 October 1932, Page 10

LEOPARD LOOSE AT ZOO

THRILLS AMONG SPECTATORS. A QUEUE THAT MELTED. K leopard which escaped from its cage dt a zoo in a pleasure park on the promenade at Morecambe, a Lancashire watering place, provided thrills tor a crowd of onlookers before it was caught. Just before the zoo opened for business a boy 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 ott, 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 the Society for the Prevention.of Cruelty to Animals arrived armed with.a gun. chloroform, and a fishing 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 decided to drench it with buckets of water. This was done, the net was thrown over the leopard, and it was dragged back to its cage. A large oueue which had formed outside the zoo Sad vanished by the time the leopard was captured.