Pennsylvania 1920 - The Gorilla Heads to Snyder County (Part 1 UPDATED!)

[Trogluddite]

News about the Doerr Terrace gorilla vanished from Pittsburgh newspapers after August of 1920.  But in December, new reports came in about a wild animal, supposed to have been an escaped circus gorilla, which attacked young Samuel Bolig (or Boling or Bolling in some reports) at his home near Lewiston.  These shorter article is from The Pittsburgh (PA) Press on December 14, 1920; the longer from The Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News on December 17, 1920. 

 

UPDATE: As I've cleared out my clippings, I found this one (added below) which I had missed.  The Altoona (PA) Tribune on December 15, 1920, contains the most complete report of the initial encounters with the "gorilla."

 

 

                                             

 

 

 

Edited November 15 by Trogluddite