Ignoramus

In Brooklyn last week Ralph Gianerone showed two of his friends--Paul Riekle and Lawrence Gillison--his old Army rifle. He proposed a hunt. The three took out hunting licenses, set off in an automobile. At Palisades Interstate Park, a State game preserve, they entered the woods, proceeded afoot till they came to a wire enclosure. Inside the enclosure they could hear a pounding of hoofs. Presently, galloping along the barrier came a large animal with horns. Cried Paul Riekle and Lawrence Gillison: "Let him have it, quick!" Hunter Gianerone pointed his Army rifle through the wire, shot the animal dead.

Startled police found Hunter Gianerone scrambling over the fence to reach his kill. They arrested him, explained to him that not only had he killed an animal in sanctuary, but that the animal was an elk, everywhere protected in New York. Ignoramus Gianerone said he had thought it was a deer. Then he tried to deny having shot it. He was fined $102.50, his comrades $52.50 each.

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