Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police report on Keeper Earl's death said he had been dismissed when found drunk and asleep on duty. Cleveland authorities quickly denied this. They have no record of Keeper Earl's dismissal, say (as TIME told) that he was feeding the bear in line of duty when attacked...
...Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled him, gored him with short, sharp horns. One John Downey, visitor at the zoo, heard Keeper...
...Next day Keeper Mott died of his wounds. He was the second zookeeper killed at work this month. Last fortnight, Sunshine, the Russian brown bear in Cleveland's zoo, slew Keeper Thomas Earl (TIME, July 18). For his crime. Sunshine was shot to death. Because blue gnus are rare & costly, murderous Big Nick was not killed, but sentenced to isolation for life...
...Sunshine, a big Russian brown bear in Cleveland's Brookside Zoo, Keeper Thomas Earl had always spoken kindly. "He is docile, tame and well mannered," said he. One day last week Keeper Earl entered Sunshine's cage with a breakfast of raw meat, carrots, two loaves of bread. Sunshine was not in a good humor, did not retire to his pit for his meal. Keeper...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...