1874 Central Park Zoo Escape










Headline for New York Herald story


The 1874 Central Park Zoo Escape was a hoax perpetrated in the New York Herald on November 9, 1874.[1][2]


The Herald's cover story claimed that there had been a mass escape of animals from the Central Park Zoo, and several people had been killed by the free-roaming beasts. A rhinoceros was said to be the first to escape, goring his keeper to death and setting into motion the escape of other animals, including a polar bear, a panther, a Numidian lion, several hyenas, and a Bengal tiger.[3] At the end of the lengthy article, the following notice was the only indication that the story horrifying readers across the city was a hoax: “Of course, the entire story given above is a pure fabrication. Not one word of it is true.” That was not enough to assuage critics, however, who accused James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the owner of the paper, of inciting panic when the extent of the hoax became widely known.[4][5][6][7][8][9]


Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke was the primary writer of the hoax, under the direction and inspiration of the Herald's managing editor Thomas B. Connery, who often walked through the zoo and had witnessed a near-escape of a leopard.[2]



See also


  • Tom Collins Hoax of 1874




References





  1. ^ Robert E. Bartholomew; Benjamin Radford (19 October 2011). The Martians Have Landed!: A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes. McFarland. pp. 84–85. ISBN 978-0-7864-8671-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ ab Connery, T. B. (3 June 1893). A Famous Newspaper Hoax[permanent dead link], Harper's Weekly, p. 534


  3. ^ Hampton Sides (4 August 2014). In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.


  4. ^ "The Central Park Zoo Escape, 1874". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved 22 September 2014.


  5. ^ Edward J. Levine (18 October 2006). Central Park. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-4396-1812-7.


  6. ^ Joy Masoff (2006). Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments. Workman. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-0-7611-3684-2.


  7. ^ Thomas Lawrence Connelly (1978). The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. LSU Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-8071-0474-3.


  8. ^ Michael Rubbinaccio (15 December 2012). New York's Father Is Murdered!: The Life and Death of Andrew Haswell Green. Pescara Books. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-615-72739-4.


  9. ^ David Rains Wallace (16 November 2000). The Bonehunters' Revenge: Dinosaurs, Greed, and the Greatest Scientific Feud of the Gilded Age. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 6–7. ISBN 0-618-08240-9.




External links



  • The full text of the original story is available here.


  • Story at Fultonhistory.com









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