Sea-lion from Billy Smart Circus goes missing: archive, 14 October 1960
Fritzy the sea-lion jumped into the Thames from a boat hired to promote the circus - but not everyone wants him returned to his ownersThe Performing Animals Defence League yesterday offered a £60 reward to anyone who prevented Fritzy, the sea-lion which escaped into the Thames on Wednesday, from being recaptured, and induced him to escape into the North Sea and "to freedom from further circus captivity." An off…