Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — BIG GATOR LOOSE IN STREET [ARTICLE]

BIG GATOR LOOSE IN STREET

Leaps Out at Party of Young People, but Is Beaten and Caged. Petersburg, Ind., Aug. 6. —Within a stone’s throw of the courthouse and in the main street of this city a big alligator, which had escaped from Its owner, attacked Charles Summer, Ed Buckles, Merle Alexander and Lulu Stevens. The 'gator sprang from an embankment in front of H. R. Snyder s residence and struck within a few inches of one of the young girls. She screamed. A crowd was attracted and the alligator was beaten and forced into a box.