PHANTOM FOX

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 3

PHANTOM FOX

RAIDS IN LONDON DOCKS AT LARGE FOR TWO YEARS ( ( I 'l'lie Port of London Authority has j ;i highly efficient police force for the I detection and arrest of criminals in its docks. * But there is one marauder it can- i not apprehend. The “criminal" is an old and greying fox, which has eluded pursuit for more than two years. J Moreover, the cunning fox has a confederate—a little wild brown dog which accompanies it on all its piratical enterprises. “I first found traces of the creature two years ago,” remarked one of the higher officials of the port to a News of the World reporter. “It. was on the old Rum Quay, which was burned down in the West India Docks some time ago. The site of the quay had become overgrown ; with weeds. One morning I found t unusual footprints in Ihe wet mud. i “We set a watch, and in the grey- r ing dawn a day or two later we j caught sight of our quarry. It was a j fox." | The P.L.A. police set innumerable traps for the fugitive. They found ; that, every night he ventured out and ■ “dragged" dustbins and other waste- ; food stores. They discovered later i that he was accompanied always by 5 the little brown dog who barked as a sentinel whenever the “hunt” drew | near. i — — 1 - \