Show Modern Daniel Coaxes COax s Lions Away Say Police Police were called Friday night nighton on what wha they described bed as the most enterprising theft of the year that of two mountain lions s from the Hogle Gardens zoo The he lions lion they were told d dis disappeared disappeared dis- dis appeared in the possession of a aman aman aman man who drove up in a truck opened the lion ion cage coaxed the two bI big cats into his truck and sped away Captain R a R. R McCollin director of the zoo told p police the lions liona were n two years old and had been carefully care fully trained trained doing doing stunts on Sundays to the delight of children chil hil hildren dren Police investigation disclosed they said that the lions were taken by a former z zoo o wh who claIm claimed d he had a written contract contract con con- tract for the purchase se of the lions HonS at a price o ot Unable to obtain them on the contract police said sad th the a lion tamer chose to take them i anyway A |