Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
An ourang outang Captures Child

turneth upon his pursuers. and grasp
ing victim in his strong right arm,
feeth away to the remotest rccesses OF
the Jungle and there he sits and laughs
and laughs. But what he finds to
laugh at heaven only knows" !"
Perhaps Miss Lulu, now resident in
Roosevelt street, had heard this part of
the meuagerie lecturers speech re-
hearsed on her voyage to civilization.
Perhaps she knew, by some process of
devination peculiar to the ourangoutang
intellect, that she would be talked
about that way some day herself.
The exact cause of Miss Lulu's con-
duct will remain q mystery until Prof.
Garner complies his lexicon of monkey
talk. but the fact remains that she gave
an exhibition on Sunday of what an
ourang-outaug can do in the way of car
rying oil'a human victim, which made y
sensation in Roosevelt street for several
| hours.
Miss Lulu is about two years old.
She is pronounced brunette. She is
four feet two and a half inches high,
has dropping eyes, regular nose and
mouth. hands with long and rather
graceful fingers, and is said, in her re-
semblancc to human being, to be one
of the finest specimens OF the ourang-
outang ever brought TO this country.
She arrived last week at Captain
Donald Burns hotel for animals, where
the interesting carnival of lions, told
about in the Herald, was held q few
days ago.
Miss Lulu has shown an amiable dis
position, unlike that of her male COM
paniou, who sits and mopes under q
blanket in dark corner of his cage,
adjoining hers, or snarls or shows his
yellow fangs when disturbed by Cap
tain Burns or the frolics of baby
ourang- -outang attached TO the bars of
the cage and allowed to caper about
the floor outside.
Miss Lulu has been so docile that, as
reward of merit, Captain Burns de-
cided to let her have a little exercise
on Sunday afternoon. Taking her
from her cage he fastened her by a
long chain to the bars of the cage,
which stands in the rear of the room on
the ground floor. 4 chair was placed
within reach that she might sit down
when she felt like it.
The Captain was called from the
place half an hour later. He left the
front door unlocked A few minutes
afterward his assistant also went out
The door was still unlocked. This was
shortly after two o'clock.
Children of the neighborhood visit
the animal emporium almost daily. and
the good natured Captain always well
comes them. 1t is all the menagerie
many of them ever see.
One of the Captains favorites is little
Maggie DAILY, three years old, whose
papents live in the big red tenement at
at No 127 up the street. She is sweet
faced child, with red cheeks and big
blue eyes, but is very small for her
age.
Little Maggie went to the animal
store on Sunday afternoon while Cap
tain Burns and his sister were away.
The little girl had been there too often
and seen too many strange animals and
birds to be frightened at the ourang
outang. She closed the front door and
the orlrang outang, which had been sit
ting in the middle of the floor, came
hopping toward her on all tours.
From the animals neck dangled .
piece of chain. The rest Of it lay upon
the floor. In her gambols after Captain
Burns and his assistant had left the
store Miss Lulu must have snapped q
defective link.
Little Maggie still had no fear of the
animal, although she knew that it was
loose. She stood still and the ourang
outang rising on its hind legs, its head
| being higher than the little girls, put
its hands on her shoulders. Even this
did not alarm the child, who patted
Miss Lulu's head and said, "Nice mont
key"
She changed her mind very sudden
ly when Miss Lulu put pair of hairy
arms around her waist aud squeezed
her.-Then Maggie said:
''Don'-don,' you big, naughty mont
key. You hurt Madgic"
But Miss Lulu would not loose her
hold, aud before the little girl could
tell what was happening the oruang
outang had dragged her over to the
south side of the room, where boxes
were piled nearly to the ceiling ten feet
aIcrU and rude ladder to trap door
through the second floor.
Little Maggie struggled and scream.
ed little, bnt with movement a.
spry as if she had learned the trick in
Il circus the ourang outang half dragged
| half lifted her over the boxes and III
the ladder to the second floor. 1t was
done so quickly that the child doesn't
know how it was done.
! After the scramble through the open trap
/ door Miss Lulu pushed the little girl playfully
| into 4 corner of the room where there was !;
pile of old blankets. One of these Miss Lulu
snatched up and wrapped around Maggie now
/ thoroughly terrified, aud left her resting OF
the pile.
The ucisc of her soh5ing seemed TO frighter
/ the ourang outans, which lost no time in re'
treating down stairs, where she was found by
| Captain Burns. who returned half IN hour
ater. Maggie, though brave little girl, had
/ hidden her head in the blankets after her ter
rifying experience, and soon sobbed herself &c
+! sleep.
When six o'clock came and Maggie had moi
returned home her PARENTS searched the
nsighborhood for her. II was eight o'clock, ol
ntatiy SIX hours after Maggie entered the ami
maj store, when the child was found by Cap
tain Burns assistant asleep in the pile Of
blankets or the second floor.
Little Maggie DAILY was playing in tn,
street near her home Monday afternoon. She
gave an account in childish prattle of her ex