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...Industry, N. Y. last month two pet bears named Andy & Amos were shot to death because one of them had killed a child (TIME, Oct. 24). Last week Director Edmund Heller of Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo was concerned about press reports of a bear-killing in his zoo. Experimenting with groups of animals in large open dens Director Heller had placed together a pair of black bears, a pair of grizzlies, a pair of polar bears and a pair of wolves. All were young. Frolicking in their pool one day, the polar bears playfully began ducking...
...Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school. The new bird escaped out the window. Father McReddy rushed to the tenement house roof, fell off the fire escape. When son McReddy came home he found his father dead as well as his canary...
...Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon I, is omitted by the Almanack de Gotha. Pet of the Press, he fell into his last illness when, all in one day, his pet French bulldog Bouboule (last of a series) died and a maid was killed falling downstairs...
Until last week Fred and Hector Redshaw of Industry, N.Y. owned two black bears: Andy and his mate named, despite her sex, Amos. Last week the Redshaws were driving their pets home from advertising a cinema in Lockport. Near Albion their truck broke down. They tied the bears to a fence, started making repairs. A curious jabbering crowd gathered around the nervous animals. Small Peter Mathew Ryan, 5, wanted to pet Andy. . . . His father tore the clawed and bitten boy away, rushed him to a hospital where he soon died, a doctor said mostly of fright...
...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...