The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-03
A LEOPARD ESCAPES.
IL StilNS UP A TROLLEY POLE AND
i GETS SHOCKED.

NJ Golf Players. IL Pursued by u Boar.
hound and Finally Cots Caught by a
Noted Trapper.
A tame leopard employed by the Bar
hum show at Bridgeport relapsed into
savhEery the other night and got away
from the winter quarters ~ big boar
hound went III pursuit and after some
difficulty found the leopard hiding in II
golf field
Not being hungry, having just eaten
u sheep, tho wild beast was running
around big bowlder to get up IN APP
petite for ono of the golf PLAYERS, who
wero entirely unconscious of tho ap-
proach of any other 1nualtime than their
own.
The leopard was tame once and mt tho
beginning of tho seuson used to Jump
over stick i'll the street parades Of tho
circus. One day she bit piece out of "a
clown and was sent to Bridgeport to DO
further tanned by Barney Duke, the pro-
fcssional terror of the animal kingdom.
she lived i'll n building which is being
torn down to make room for u new ele-
phantarium, us Mr.. Bailey calls it, The
workmen, who didn't know there was a
leopard on tho other side Of the wall,
tore out enough bricks from the back Of
nor cage to lot her escape She waited
until niahtfall and then got out
In another part of the leopard house is
n whito eyed horse used for ring pur-
poses and now here under treatment for
insanity. The animal received an injury
on the head which nccossitates the onera-
finft Of trnt l,,c g., IL
her reason In the same building il tho
boxing boarhound Heno, who had been
left behind TO nurse her puppies. She
used to perform i'll den with tho lions,
Tigers and loopards.
When Mr.. Duke went to feed the
white Dyed horse this morning, lie found
her bitten and scratched. He thought at
first she had attempted suicide in cit of
Insanity but when he missed tho leonard
he knew that tho 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, ho has known oscaned
wild boasts to sample dozen animals
before they found something to suit
Ono of the lions got out last spring and
bit small pieces out of zebra, n camel
and bear, but, finding mono of them
fit TO cat, went and dovoured an ostrich
Tho lion tanner resolved to go leopard
hunting. He took gun and tho big
boarbound Irene with him Her five
pups shifted at the horso's blood, wag-
ged their little tails and followed Duke
showed tho boarhound tho empty Gage
and gavo her to understand she must
take up the scent.
Irene put her nose to the ground and
then bounded over tho fence in full cry
toward Mountain Grove cemetery, her
1--WE pups running along i'll single fl 10 on
their first leopard hunt. She went over
the dam ut Moody's pond, where all the
pups fell in and had to be fished out
Behind Hollands heights the first tracks
were found.
And I'm blamed if that leonard
didn t walk backward, 60 lis to fool me"
said tho keeper. ~ suppose she didn t
think I'd run her down by scent" On
Miles Bathwell' farm was found dead
sheep. It's angular vein had been torn
open, and most Of its blood was gone.
Hero tho dog was for awhile confused.
pes oVOh siic iOOh UP inc lT.tll again. IL
led her to the Brooklawn Country club,
where several players in scarlet coats
were striking attitudes and balls Be-
hind the howlder, waiting impaticntly
for an appetite, was tho leopard When
she saw the dog, she gave u hiss and ran
toward Henry Setzcr's park The golf
players ran the other way.
The leopard, being closely pursued,
ran half mile and then Skinned up q
trolley pole. When sho 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 Il rope around tho leopard's
neck, and when she recovered her senses
the procession to town began The boar
hound led, tho leopard, with her tail be-
tween hcr legs, came next, and Duke
and tbs five pups brought up the rear.
A second division consisted Of n crowd
of golf players. men, women and babies
and policeman in plain clothes. Now
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