MONKEY MAKES 80-MILE JOURNEY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18055, 15 January 1927, Page 9

MONKEY MAKES 80-MILE JOURNEY.

BIMBO BATTLES WITH CAPTORS. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON. November 30. (hie of the most, disappointed men in England is Mr T. Norman, owner of a caravan called the Saracen's Head. r Kugby, who believed he had captured Franko, the conductor of the monkey jazz band, for whom a reward of £25 was offered, only to learn that it was Bimbo, the drummer-boy, for whom no reward had been offered. It appears that Bimbo boarded a Metropolitan train from Latimer Road to Euston. changed on to the L.M.S.. and tlience travelled to Rugby firstclass. a total distance of more than eighty miles. He alighted through the window, cleared thp barrier at the station, rushed through the town and,end - ed up at the Saracen’s Head, over a mile from the station, yesterday. CARAVAN BATTLE. Bimbo allowed himself to be arrested, giving Mr Norman to understand he was “going quietly," but no sooner was he locked up than he made a furious onslaught on his captor, scratching fcis hands and ffice. He succeeded in breaking three China teasets. Mr Norma:;, however, ultimately won the battle and sent the recalcitrant drummer home. Bimbo arrived at Euston in a furious temper. It took three porters to get him to the parcels office, where Mrs Murphy took charge of him. Two of the monkeys remain at large —the redoubtable Franko, who has been “seen” at Ealing, Paddington. Brixton and Brentford—and Sandy, the Last of the (monkey) Mohicans, who still holds out beneath the platform of Latimer Road Station.