ep23 Animals Field Day

The moves have a field day in New Jersey. Kisses pay off a $5,000 debt. A song was written about a chance remark. Can you imagine that? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is Lindsey McCarry back again with another assorted collection of odd facts and news items with which to amuse and entertain you for a while. Until my cohorts and I return in just a minute and a half, we

hope you'll wait, won't you? Long about the animal fair, it seems that all the birds and the beasts were there. Well, in the first part of the month of August, 1926, the State

New Jersey had an animal fair all its own it was on August 5th that the phone rang and police headquarters in Middleton New Jersey. Please guess how I'm speaking. This is Oliver down your home in order of the twin book zoo.

Yeah. And look at the leopard loose from my zoo. Huh? A leopard. Yes it's vicious. It's good from a crate. You better warn everybody to look out for it because it's dangerous. Shoot the killer if you can't capture it. I'll offer a hundred dollars reward that are alive. Yes sir Higgins Mallory Cassidy. There's a leopard loose someplace we got to get it.

But Saturday August 7th rolled around and the spotted killer was still on the loose, roaming the Red Bank countryside. The reward went up to $500 and rifles were loaned by the National Guard to nearly a hundred men.

The hunt was on. But meanwhile, still in New Jersey, on August 9th in Compton Lake. See? Ain't that a dog hollering? Yep. Been hearing it for Greg Spelner. Wonder what's the matter with it? Let's take a look outside you. Sounds like it's pretty close.