- #Milwaukee journal sentinel november 11 2015 obituaries driver
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McCarthy excuses 15 veterans from Packers' mandatory minicampĬourt upholds net neutrality rules on equal internet access Infant mortality rates improve, but racial gap widens again Police say no gunshot victims inside Wal-Mart in Texasįeingold launches attack ad against Johnson Ryan again strikes different tone than Trump on Muslims Seraphim, who noted that the woman had been placed on probation in 1959 for cutting another woman, fined her $50 and gave her another six months' probation, the Journal reported. Seraphim at her hearing March 4, according to the Journal story on the case. "I was carrying it to protect myself from that mountain lion," the woman told Municipal Court Judge Christ T. Police arrested her after getting a call from a man who said he saw her slash tires on a car. On March 3, a Milwaukee woman was arrested in Milwaukee and charged with carrying a concealed weapon - a knife. "It looks like a lion," Ellis acknowledged.Ĭoverage of the Great Lion Hunt of 1961 tapers off after that, although the Journal archives include occasional stories on sightings of an unidentified large animal that the paper vaguely ties back to the winter's elusive mountain lion.īut in its brief moment in the headlines, the mystery creature made its mark. She gave it a meal, and was hoping its owners would claim it. a sizable, female golden retriever with giant paws. 47th St., caught what might have been Milwaukee's big game when she found a large animal lying in the mud near her yard, took it into her garage, cleaned it off and discovered. On March 6, June Ellis, living in the 3300 block of N. Zoo Director George Speidel added: "The possibility of a mountain lion roaming the greater Milwaukee area is about as remote as finding the abominable snowman on Holy Hill." A mountain lion doesn't have hair on the face. "Someone sees a big tawny dog, and then you get these silly reports about an animal with a lot of hair on its face. "It's just like the flying saucer bit," he told the Journal. To Pelzer - who said he had hunted catamounts, more commonly known as pumas - before, "in my personal opinion, several large dogs are being mistaken for this cat." Pelzer, then the chief taxidermist at the Milwaukee Public Museum, said the tracks were found by a Milwaukee police officer in the 1200 block of W. The Journal reported that a plaster cast made of paw tracks made by the animal showed they were, according to an expert, not from a big cat but a large dog. On March 4, 1961, came a break in the case, sort of. "Now I'm a believer."Ĭobb said the animal was light brown, about two and a half feet tall and weighed about 80 pounds. "I had read about the mountain lion and thought maybe it was a cat or dog," patrolman Gail Cobb told the Journal. The next day, a Wauwatosa police officer saw the animal cross Blue Mound Road in the early morning hours. I was afraid to go out again," she told the Journal. I was so scared I ran back into the house. 28 two days later, on March 2, a woman living not far from Union Cemetery saw a large animal eating out of garbage cans behind her house. Two Milwaukee police officers spotted what they thought was the big cat near the cemetery on the night of Feb. The sightings picked up considerably after that.
#Milwaukee journal sentinel november 11 2015 obituaries driver
Teutonia Ave., after a truck driver spotted "a large animal, resembling Mequon's reported catamount," heading toward the cemetery, according to another front-page Journal story. Three days later, the hunt heated up when four squads of Milwaukee police - toting rifles, or at least they are in a photo that ran in a subsequent edition of the Milwaukee Sentinel - searched Union Cemetery, 3175 N. Mequon Police Chief Robert Milke told the Journal he thought there was no question that the creature was a mountain lion, based on its tracks and descriptions given "by nine or 10 respected citizens." According to the story, Mequon police had been tracking a reported mountain lion since the previous September in February, a Fox Point resident said she also saw the animal in the front yard of her N. "Big 'Cat' Is Reported Prowling in Mequon's Lake Shore Area," read the headline in the Feb.
#Milwaukee journal sentinel november 11 2015 obituaries series
Reports of sightings of a lion - or "lion-like creature" - on the city's north side and thereabouts this past week sound surprisingly similar to a series of big-cat sightings that made front-page news in The Milwaukee Journal in February and March 1961. This isn't Milwaukee's first, well, catfight.
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