MENAGERIE DESERTERS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11494, 29 January 1903, Page 5

MENAGERIE DESERTERS.

& sensation wf>s caused in the rkiniiy o f the enmp cf Fitzgerald Brothers' circus ji Geelong ihr other day, by the escape of th? citplisnt. which broke away from tlje spot where it hsul been tethered. According to h. report in * Melbourne pAper the two horsps which usually are eompamona to the fltplunt. had been removed while the me lingerie was being triH»efeii>ed u> the (>?dr.ng railway station prior to h?in2 trucked to Willinms(<jwn. mil, nj.'pniHi'.ly annoysd by the loss <>f it-s toinjiajiion.;, the elephant became rest lew. and Mj.-T*edo<l in its endeavours u> e.-rnpe. It attacked «. fence, jihd, after knocking •> portion of it down, eot into a neighbouring yard, and «.tnjjienced an exploring expedition, much tr> th« oonsterr.Mtinn «\ the occupants of the hnnse, who weie disturbed in their slumbers. Screams and vpl'm soon attracted a crowd to the place. ar.d attemj'ts were Blade to -efroct a rapture, but without re«ult. A telephone rne;s:i£e w;\s sent tr> the poliro viith a lequest that nn «/lk*r should attend aid make an "arrest," but ,ift<n- some <!inieuftv the k«|ier i of the .-'nim;il whs found, and he iui- I Bietliatfly quietf-ntd his charge, and re- I ni'ived it i<> the .station without furt.h?? dmiagp to jnopeity. The same <lay one oi the baboons escaped, and a child named Peterson, living with its parents in Argyl? itreet, was mauled about a good deal, and had to receive medical attention. The child was mufh bruised about the fihonlder »nd cide, and is suffering greatly from nervous prostration from the rough usage it was subjected to by t-lie baboon, which also frightened a youna man named MatSmith by appearing at luh bedroom \s-in-dow early in the morning, and making an attempt to enter.