The memory of the oldest inhabitant of this section probably does not go back to the time when lions walked abroad at night in this section. Therefor no little excitement was experienced Thursday night when three young lions belonging to the Sanger show were liberated when the ponies ran away and turned over the lions’ cage, bursting it open.
The accident happened when the show was loading after the night performance.
A son of Mrs. C.H. Haynes ran in his home arousing his mother who had retired, by calling for a gun to kill the lion in their yard.
Crowds gathered quickly and the animal was cornered, one man grabbed an empty chicken coop and approached the beast, turning the coop over the lion he mounted the coop and stood guard on top of it, bragging about his bravery, telling how he had captured lions in Africa, which had never known captivity, etc., but when the trainer arrived to take charge of the lion, it was not under the coop at all, probably had not been, so the search started over again.
This time the snorting enraged beast was cornered in Mr. Creveling’s garden, and after some effort was lassoed with a rope and carried back to his cage.
Neither of the animals were grown and the other two were caught without much excitement.
From the Mount Airy News, Aug. 25, 1921
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