WILD CAT CAUGHT IN TINICUM TWP. 
Rare Animal, Supposed to Be Nearly Extinct, Trap 
ped by 16-Year-01d Lad 
SPORTSMEN TO SEE IT HERE 
A GENUINE wild cat, a species of animal that is now said 
to be very rare in this country, was trapped and killed 
on Monday, January 16, by Tunis Brady, the 16-year- 
old son of Joseph Brady, on the Cook premises, on the edge of 
the State Auxiliary game preserve in the Tinicum Swamp, this 
county. With the possible exception of two similar animals 
killed about two years ago by a son of Daniel Trouts in the same 
locality, this is probably the first wild cat known to be taken in 
Bucks county for nearly three-quarters of a century. The last 
wild cat shot in central Bucks county was killed on Spruce Hill, 
about a mile below Chalfont fifteen or twenty years before the 
Civil War. This capture is said to be the only authenticated 
taking of a wild cat anywhere in the county until the capture last 
Monday — but the Spruce Hill cat may have been a bob cat. 
The carcass of the Xockamixon cat is now in the possession 
of Game Protector Warren Fretz, who will exhibit it at the an- 
nual meeting and smoker of the Bucks County Fish, Game and 
Forestry Association next Tuesday night, when it will no doubt 
be an object of great curiosity to the sportsmen. 
Terrified the Neighborhood 
For three years residents in the vicinity of the Auxiliary 
Game Preserve have known of the presence of some strange wild 
animal in the vicinity, which uttered "unearthly" yells at night. 
So terrifying were the cries of this animal that timid women in 
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