Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1912 — DEER INVADES BUSY CITY [ARTICLE]

DEER INVADES BUSY CITY

Knocks Down Boy and Horse and Escapes Handcuffs of a Vancouver Policeman. Vancouver, B. C. —A big buck deer started 600 persons homeward bound from church, upset a boy and horse, and escaped after being handcuffed. The deer was first seen standing in a vacant lot. Boyd Lauder, a 16-yearm-old boy, went to look at it and was thrown to the ground. The buck then attacked and overthrow a horse tied to he ground. The bilck then attacked and overthew a horse tied in the lot and returned to trample the Lauder hoy, when Policeman Samuel Gray caught it by the antlers and threw it, after twenty minutes’ struggle, by twisting its neck. ' From force of habit Grady snapped handcuffs about the deer’s legs. The deer sprang to its feet aiM the handcuffs slipped to the ground. The “prisoner” escaped by swimming a creek.