Robert Hall, an employe of the city water works department, is in possession of an odd pet. While reading meters on North Centre street, Mr. Hall discovered a small alligator about eight inches in one of the meter boxes. Mr. Hall succeeded in rescuing the strange visitor from its underground prison and brought it to the city hall, where it was the object or interest to all who saw it.
The supposition is that the alligator was brought here on one of the logs shipped over the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, and that after falling from the train load of logs and crawling some distance it fell into the meter box and was unable to escape from its prison.
From page 4 of The Goldsboro News, June 14, 1925
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