Tigress Escapes From Glasgow Zoo
Received Sunday, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 5. A full-grown 'Bengal tigress escaped from its cage at the Glasgow Zoo today, imauled the head keeper and was finally shot hy the zoo director. The keeper entered the cage thinking it was empty, hut 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 then 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, hufc nohody was near the animal 's cage at the time.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 5
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