Tigress Escapes From Zoo; Mauls Keeper; Has To Be Shot
LONDON, Nov. 5 (Recd. 6 p.m.) —A fully grown Bengal tigress escaped from a cage at the Glasgow zoo today, mauled the head keeper, and was finally shot by the zoo directoh The keeper entered the cage thinking it empty. When the tigress loomed at the door connecting the cage to the animal walk it leapt at him. A 60-year-old gardener rushed into the cage and hit the tigress over the head with a shovel until it ran into the open. The monster bounded out into the zoo grounds where the director shot it down. Among the visitors to the zoo was an organised party of school girls, but nobody was near the animal’s cage at the time.— Reuter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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