The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-08-07
A LEOPARD ESCAPES.
IT Sims UP A TROLLEY POLE AND
GETS STOCKED.

Also Takes a Bite Out of a Horse, Glares
at Golf Players, Is Pursued by a Boar
hound and Finally Gets Caught by a
Noted Trspper.
A tame leopard employed by the Bar-
mum show at Bridgeport relapsed into
saYagery the other night and got away
Irom the winter quarters. A big boar
hound went in pursuit and after some
difficulty found the leopard hiding in
golf field.
Not beng hungry, having Just eaten
a sheep, the wild beast was running
around big bowlder to get up an APP
petite for one of the golf players. who
were entirely unconscious of the APP
proach of any other mealtime than their
own.
The leopard was tame once and at the
beginning Of the season used to jump
over stick in the street parades of the
circus. One day she bit a piece out of
clown and was sent to Bridgeport to be
further tanned by Barney Duke the pro-
! fesslonal terror Of the animal kingdom
She lived in building which is being
torn down to make room for a new ele-
phantarium, as Mr.. Bailey calls it. The
workmen, who didn know there was
leopard on the other side of the wall,
tore out enough bricks from the back Of
her cage to let her escape. She waited
until nightfall and then got ont.
In another part Of the leopard house is
white eyed horse used for ring pur-
poses and now here under treatment for
insanity. The animalreceived an injury
on the head which necesSitates the opera
ton of trephining before she can recover
her reason. In the same building is the
boxing boarhound Irene, who had been
left behind to nurse her puppies. She
used to perform in a den with the lions,
tigers and leopards.
When M Duke went to feed the
white eyed horse this morning, he found
her bitten and scratched He thought at
first she had attempted suicide in a fit Of
insanity, bat when he missed the leopard
he knew that the creature had got out
and begun to eat his crazy patient,
Duke says the leopard probably didn't
like the taste Of the horse and went to
look for something better. According to
his statement, he has known escaped
wild beasts to sample.a dozen animals
before they found something to suit.
One Of the lions got out last spring and
bit small pieces out Of q zebra, a camel
and bear, but, finding none of them
fit to eat. went and deyOured an ostrich.
The lion tanner resolved to so leopard
hunting He took gun and the big
boarhound Irene with him. Her five
pups shifted at the horses blood, wag-
ged their little tails and followed Duke
showed the boarhound the empty cage
and gave her to understand she must
take up the scent.
Irene put her nose to the ground and
then bounded over the fence in full cry
toward Mountain Grove cemetery, her
five pups running along in single file on
their first leopard hunt She went over
the dam at Moody's pond, where all the
pups fell in and had to be fished out.
Behind Holland g heights the first tracks
were found.
and I'm blamed if that leopard
didn t walk backward, so as tof0ol me,
said the keeper Il suppose she didn't
think I'd run her down by scent " On
Miles Bathwell' S farm was found dead
sheep It's jugular vein had been torn
open, and most Of its blood was gone.
Here the dog was for awhile confused,
but soon she took up the trail again. 1t
led her to the Brooklawn Country club,
where several players in scarlet coats
were striking attitudes and balls. Be
hind the bowlder, waiting lmpatlently
for an appetite, was the leopard. When
she saw the dog, she gave a hiss and ran
toward Henry Setzer's park. The golf
PLAYERS ran the other way.
The leopard, being closely pursued,
ran half mile and then Skinned up
trolley pole. When she got to the top
she touched live wire and fell to the
ground unconscious. The boarhound and
her pups sprang upon her and were beat
en- off with difficulty by the keeper
Duke tied a rope around the leopard
neck. and when she recovered her senses
the procession to town began The boar
hound led, the leopard, with her tail be-
tween her legs, came next, and Duke
and the five pups brought up the rear:
A second division consisted of crowd
Of golf players, men, women and babies
and a policeman in plain clothes. New
York World.
BioOmers and the Law.
Some Chicago folks want to make the
-.;,,o. of 1,Ioo,oars breaches of law