Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-08 | Page 1 | Orleans "Ghost" Develops Just Playful "Gator"

Orleans Ghost I Develops Just Playful II Gator NEW ORLEANS Aug 8 The a.-The The I ghost which for a month has haunted the vi vicinity of Baronne and Girod streets in the center of New Orleans' Orleans retail business district was laid today by Patrolman Patrolman Pa Pol Les Lea Halliday Several persons reported that it hissed at them at various times The mystery was solved when Officer Halliday Halliday heard a woman's womans womans woman's womans woman's wo wo- wo- wo mans man's frantic frant c screams for help and a stout fairly whizzed by him yelling hits after me mel I The officer drew his revolver and crouching hing began to way work his way in the direction which the woman had come Lumbering toward him down slown the sidewalk lashing its tail tall was the ghost ghost an an alligator more than four feet in length The Tha policeman arrested the gator gato and Jailed him in a box Later he was presented to the zoo 00 at park The gator is supposed to have entered the city from a nearby marsh by way of one of the numerous drainage canals that serve New Orleans