Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1916 — STRANGE ANIMAL IS CAPTURED [ARTICLE]

STRANGE ANIMAL IS CAPTURED

Resembles AlHostor Crossed With Some Other Species San Jose, Cal.—A strange freak of nature which some believe to be a young alligator and others say cannot be classified under that head, has been captured in Soap Lake, near Gilroy, this county, by Leland B. Holloway. When handled or otherwise aroused the thing emits a sound which Is declared to be a cross between a bark and a grunUgaHOM*'*®-* l ** the fitettk th the University of California, where he will ask that an attempt be made to classify It It is thought to be a hybrid originating in a cross betweenan alligator and some other animat The Qld alligator is believed to have been discarded by some passing circus.