ROOF HUNT FOR BADGER
Policemen with a ladder, a clothes line and a broomstick took part in an exciting chase at Tottenham recently. A boy found a badger in his room and threw a coat over it, but it bit him on the hand and escaped through the open window on to the roof.
A policeman climbed a ladder and tried to lasso the badger with a clothes line. Eventually another constable brought it to earth with a broomstick and a bystander killed it with a stick. How the badger got into the bedroom is a. mystery.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1933, Page 9
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