BRUIN AND THE CRIMINAL.
A very interesting slyry is told of the. days when criminals were executed in Switzerland. At Berne there was a den of bears alongside the walls- of tbo prison. A man who was condemned to death set to work to try and burrow through the walls of his cell, and after working for some time be was delighted to hear a neighbour engaged in a. similar occupation at the other side of the wall. He. worked with redoubled vigour; the worker on the other side did the same, with the result that at last the wall fell in, and a large hole was made. ' But the condemned man was horrified to find jiimself face to face with a huge bear, which, ior its part, was equally taken nback. The man recovered bis. wits first, and slipping past the bear, got into the open and escaped. The bear, seeing a comfortable bed of straw, got into the cell and went to sleep, so when the gaolers came in the'morning they aero astonished to find a henr sleeping quietly in the criminal's place.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19986, 29 June 1920, Page 3
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