HAND-TO-PAW FIGHT
WILD BEAST HUNT PANTHERS. POULTRY AND POLICE There was an exciting time in the little coast town of Fecamp, between Havre and Dieppe, France. A circus was arriving shortly after 5 o’clock, when an accident occurred to a motor caravan, and a leopard and three panthers escaped into the streets and away to the open. While the police organised a hunt, the four animals were helping themselves to the poultry on a little farm on the outskirts of the town. A boy' of 13 years, who came out of the farmhouse to see what was the matter, was attacked and badly wounded by one of the panthers. One of the gendarmes, who had been sent to shoot the animals, found that his carbine was empty. He had an exciting hand-to-paw fight with a panther. In 4he end he felled it by- a blow with the butt end of his gun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 11
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152HAND-TO-PAW FIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 11
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