Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Monkeys Elude Pursuers [ARTICLE]

Monkeys Elude Pursuers

Four, at Large in Town, Keep Mayor, Constabulary, Linemen and Volunteer 1 * Busy. ■ . » San Rafael, Cal. —Four monkeys which escaped from Boyd Memorial Park and have since mimicked desperadoes in very realistic fashion are still at large. Jumping from tree top to tree top. . After the monkeys bad routed Mayor Richard Kinsella, the police force and the Chinese cooks at the Parkslde hotel, the Park Commission decided that stronger Inducements for the capture of their Darwinian ancestors were necessary. Accordingly, Dr. S. M. Augustine of the commission offered S2O reward for the capture, of the monkeys. Constable George Agnew appeared on the soene with cakes on which opium had been placed, covered with a thick coating of honey. This bait he placed In a convenient location. The monkeys descended from the trees, smelled the cakes, rubbed the honey and opium off against the trees and then proceeded to eat the pastry with evident relish. Hopeful of obtaining the reward, nearly fifty linemen of the telephone and electric light companies climbed the trees. The monkeys graoefully swung from tip topmost branches into adjoining trees. The linemen descended. Andrew Ludwig managed to get-hold of the infant member of the quartet. The others descended on Ludwig's hair, a large pert of which they su*

ceeded In removing. Ludwig gave Up the fight. "Marty” Johansen set up the drinks for the monkeys. Three of them refused to touch the liquor on the ground before them, but the fourth, a big male called "Joe,” drank everything in sight without any effect Fox traps with teeth protected by doth are being set in a final attempt to capture the monkeys. ■“ “ r ~~ : A scheme Is now on foot to get a few monkeys from some menagerie to use as decoys, as It is believed that if one of the escaped monkeys can he induced to return the others will follow.