Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1913 — Shooting Leopard on theSpot. [ARTICLE]

Shooting Leopard on theSpot.

“Bill had charge of the animal tent,” said the old circus man, “and among his pets was a leopard, the only one we had vtth the show, and quite enough, too. This leopard gave Bill more trouble than all the rest of the menagerie put together. It was certainly an ugly brute. _ Well, one day, when we were showing In the Midlands, I had come up to London to arrange about some advance business. I was eating my dinner in the hotel when a telegram fras handed to me. It was from Bill and said: ■The leopard has escaped. Prowling about town. What shall I do?’ That was just like Bill. He had to have explicit directions, even in an emergency like this. He didn’t want to make a mistake. I immediately wired back to Bill: ‘Shoot him on the spot!’ I didn t think any more about It until a couple of hours later, when I received another telegram from conscientious, careful Bill, asking: “Which spot?”—London Tit-Bits,