New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1928, Page 23

ALove Duel tothe Death Between Buffalo Bulls CORRALED. * n Buffalo of the Same Type as “Punch,” the Bison Who Rilled His Rival in Fair Fight. LONDON. ISTORY s filled with the names H of human kings who have wrecked families, smashed nations, battered down all barriers to win the love of & woman. Usuall possesse own. Now a king of beasts in London has become the conquering hero, or -villain as you choose, of a wild love-drama among animals which parallels'the hectic mr\sa of human monarchs like King David, Henry VIII and the late Sultan Abdul Hami This king of beasts is a magnificent buffalo, a tremendous bison of the West. ern plains, pride of the great Zoological Gardens in London, His name is Punch. Though he was ‘born on the Canadian prairie he possessed the soul of an Oriental sultan, and his keepers knew it. Realizing his poly- amous nature, the goo directors provided glm with 8 royal harem consisting of three wives, three beautiful cow-bisons, Isabel, Helen and Europa, and when his wives wearied or bored him, docile dancing girl they were kings who already wives, queens, harems of their Most Amazing of Animal Dramas in a London Zoo, *‘Punch’™ Broke Up a Home and Won a New Bride Where * for His Harem viduals of the higher animal order are often like that. There are ani- mals which mate only once and are faithful to that single mate until death. There was a lion in the New York Zoo which pined away and died of grief because its mate had died. Bill, this second buffalo at the London zoo, was a monogamous animal of that sort. His mate was a young cow-buffalo named Lady, and he took no interest in any other. Here, then, in these two neighbor- ing enclosures, occasionally survey- ing one another across the massive wooden bars, dwelt these two mag- nificent bull bisons, Punch the sul- tan, with his harem, Bill with his wife. They had a sort of indifferent contempt for one another, but never quarreled. Then, one morning, Punch looked over into the adjoining enclosure and beheld Lady in & new light. He had seen her many times before, but without interest. Actual Snapshot of the Battle Between Buffale Bulls in the London Zoo for Love of a Buffalo Cew. Now he was interested. He beheld her as King David beheld Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and he desired her more than his_own lawful wives. Early one morning a week later, how- ever, without preliminary immediate warning of any sort, there was a tre- mendous crash, and the keepers came running. No human eye had seen what happened, but it could have happened onry in one way. Punch had retired to the extreme end of his own enclosure, some hundred yards back, and catapulted himself in full charge against the fence, not with his head alone, but with the full force of his entire body, which weighed almost two tons—and he had smashed through. Now as the keepers arrived, he stood motionless, as jf dazed by the tremendous impact, glowering inside Bill's enclosure. For this reason, it was not Punch who made the opening attack in the amazing fight* that followed. Bill, regarding the now rilent mountainous figure which had so_violently rrojected itself into his own private domain—*broken into his home”— bellowed with rage, pawed the earth and prepared to give battle, while Lady, the cause of the war, stood terrified in & corner. In the first charge, Punch swerved sideways and tried a vielous hook directed at Bill's flank. This was parried. The whole thing occurred in a matter of seconds, and now two gigantic bull ' buffaloes, both enraged, were swerving, charging, snorting, bellowing, battling the dea The only way the battle could have been ltofped without ve danger to human life would have been with rifies, and there seemed no use or sense in Consequently the keepers stood watching outside the enclosure, horrified but fas- cinated by the amasing conflict. Some- times the’two great bulls ceased fencing, as if bY_ mutual consent, retired to a d tance like old knl,hu in armor, and charged each other full tilt, each hor(u to stun the other sufficiently to get in & death blow from the side. And thus it was thut Punch suddenl, {Ihld the mas- tery. Following one oI hese battering ram crashes, he turned more quickly than Bill, catapulted at short range, and drove his massive head against Bill's unpro. buffaloes were introduced to the royal enclosure, just as the viziers in ancient Baghdad dragged Circassian darnsels, y willing or unwilling, to the palace of Calif Harun-al-Rashid. In a nearby enclosure, separated from the royal palace by massive wooden bars, dwelt another huge bull buffalo of quite 5 4 different morality and temperament. ] Born on the plains of western Nebraska, . he was a moral, upright sort of buffalo who believed in monogamy and was faith- ful to one wife. This i not an exagger- ation or an intent to be humorous. Indi- .. tected side. The horns did little da ul‘e but the ribs caved in, and then as Bill tottered, Punch gave him the tearing, side-swipe death-wound with the horni bellowed once with the deep vietory, and marched back ugh the smashed gate into his own em- closure, % A moment later he stood calmly on the brow of a little green slope, surrounded by four wives instead of three, for Lady, without even waiting to be invited, had followed willingly her new lord and master. oy of 2 ANOTHER FATAL DUEL. a Tiger and Crocedile That Fought te the Death ia Jaws Had to Be Clamped to Remove the Dead Tiger. How the “Badgered” Rajah Is “Redeeming” Sinful India i 'NDIA must be purged of sin! 1 have abolish- ed child marriages. Now ] shall wipe out white slavery!” Must Be Obeyed. “Mr. A” speaking. Sir Harri is that most uncommon éreature; a “Mr. A” is Sir Harri Singh, the enormously rich ¢ Puritanical ruler. He has no time for the bright Maharajah of Kashmir. In the city of Allahabad, lights, and is regarded as the most pious of all the center of his fruitfully productive domain, Sir Har- rajahs. B ri’s name is uttered in awed whispers by the popu- But in London it’s a far different story. There, when oyou mention Sir Harri, broad grins rise to uncensored lips, and ribald l?ifih take uR the broken thread of Sir Harri’s sad Britisl adventures. They were just a lot of fun, those adven- tures, but they cost Sir Harri (or “Mr. A”) quite a neat sum—§750,000, to be exact. Sir arri, incognito as “Mr. A,” was seeing life in the capital. He became smitten with the retty wife of a bookmaker, Mrs. Maudie Eobinson, and was, incidentally, muleted of the large sum named by a T:n of blackmail- ers, men and women. Scotland Yard still re- fers to the episode—following which Sir Har ri, harried, hurried back to India —as “the greatest badger game in history.” Sir Harri’s woes over Maudie seem not only to have chastened his :’?Irlt, but to have endowed him with a right- eous wrath against the improprieties. Two years ago he ascended to the throne of Kashmir. Immediately the “‘dry-cleaning” drive was inaugurated. Police, working under Sir Harri’s su- pervision, stamped out child marriages, and are now making it so hot for the white slavers that many have already left the country for less censorious re- Ll “CHERCHFZ LA FEMME.” “Lady,” Cause of the Buffalo Love-Feud, with Hi:.(‘:hild, In & Corner of the Extraordinary Photo Buffalo Pen at the London i Siam. The Crocodi Foreheads are bent to the dust as his gold Sir Harri is He Who lace. and purple palanquin passes. J N PIVOT OF PLOT. . Protry 1:- Maudie Rebinsen in SECL S THEY MUST BE GOOD. Dasncing Girls of Kashmir, Whe Will Be Permaneatly Saved from Meral Turpitude by Sir Harri's Zeal. His Special Police H-n’ Chased Mest of the White of znflt\lde for - l}:lidie, viho. ind inet:' Sla t of Al Where i ly speaking, taught him to “go straight vers Out of Allahabad, They Flourished. y MIP' s e iy Copyright, 1937, Imternational Pestare Bervice, Inc.. Great Britain Rights Bessrved. ONCE BLACKMAILED: . NOW REFORMER. Yeuthful Sir Harri Singh, m-h," wzh. Followi: “Bed, xperience A B!::ty. Is New Purging India of ir Harri White Slavery. Much Trouble—and Cash. LOYAL SUBJECTS. . at Si 's i Cercmonies, and Wh" Have Vowed & Chaste Existonce for His Sabe, gions. . Meanwhile, Sir Harri grins a grim grin, and, perhaps, murmurs a phrase