Friday, July 26, 1929
Illinois Village Now Engaged In Big Gorilla Hunt
Middlesboro (KY) Daily News
Elizabeth, Ill., (U.P.) – This community was engaged in a great gorilla hunt today.
Posse of farmers searched the countryside for a huge Simian. The “big boy” first observed in a big patch of woods just outside of this town late yesterday, is believed to have escaped a carnival at Savanna, twenty miles from here.
He was wandering around about aimlessly, reports here stated. Housewives barricaded their doors as men folks sought the unwelcome guest.