The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-09-14
Death Of the Man-Eating Tiger Of
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bout thirty miles from this, tiger hat
been carrying of people for the past thre,
years; and. his boldness increasing daily
people walked in fear. Iquiet remembel
In 1862 the beginning OF his career, wher
hs was described sometimes ~ tiger
sometimes as panther, but always rs :
bayney with eccentric habits. He had on.
ly killed three or four people, whom he
carried off in the midst OF their fiocks; but
! by 1853 he had won an unsnviable reputa-
tion for many miles around. In May oi
of fhiSt,aunts, but unfortunately the tiger,
though there, took direction that had not
been anticipatsd; he passed under n tree
in which two matchloek men were sitting,
and stopped to smell their shoes. These
two men were stricken with awe to fire,
and the tiger walked lsisurely away. The
sportsmen only heard Of this when it was
two late, and their leave did not admit OF
their spending another day there.
Having to go on business In the neigh
borh0od Of Sirses, my friend II. was good
enough to accompany me, and we resolV-
I'd ~ spend some days. Unnecessary. in the
endeavor to rid the country of this scourge
Only few day before our arrival ut Sir
SOC, n marriage procession OF some forty
people WAS proceeding ut night along an
opsn road. One man stopped y few yards
behind to light his pipe; he never enjoined
his party; the man-eatsr sprang on his
prey and bore him off. ..r -..........
On another occasion, two men were walk
ing together, whom this tiger seized one OF
them. The other struck this tiger with a
long stick the brute dropped the first, and
carried Off the man rho had struck him.
About three miles from Sirsce is the viii
tage Bornera. at the mouth OF a glen. Four
people had been killed in this village
three while grazing cattle, and the fourth
in u manner worth narrating. He was a
hoy and the son ofthe head man of the VIII
lage. While walking with several others
I've was seized by the neck and being car
red of, when a relation drew his sword
and 80 doftly struck the tiger across the
face that he dropped the boy and SUNK
away! The poor boy. however, died in a
few days. .......
The glen extends about three miles In
length and tho ends in u perpendicular
mass Of rock. about three hundred yartl,
broad, and three hundred feet high. To
;fe right bank sloped to the bottom. and
to the left the side was rocky and precipi-
tous, with here and there path by which
the tiger could get up. At a distance or
four hundred yards from the end, the
rocky side blended into bank, which
sloped to the bottom OF the glen. In thi.
nook there were both water and shade. II
was here the tiger was found last year. and
tho villagers said it was his farorte r-sort
in very dry weather. On May 18th, being
a hot dry, day, we beat this up, but he was
not at home. Resolved to try our luck
again next day We had n couple of hutia
loss tod up an bate. On returning the day
after, we found there had bsen no kill tie
buffaloes had either beer loosed or had
got loose, and. rs tho tiger was known to
wander over twenty miles Of country, 1t
was not with sangnne hope that We reap
ed Yesterdays operations. The right bank
wGs 40 bare that we had no fear Of the I'll
re- taking that direction. We therefore
threw our line OF gun. on the left, from
the top TO the bottom OF the bGHfs.' at the
spot wherc il commenced TO become per-
psndicular and rocky. 90
From our position we could sse the beat
winding up the bank to our right. and
from the top commence the beat by throw
ing down .ton,s. Great wa. our .atisfac-
ton when, from the excitement displayed
by the heaters we knew that the tiger had
been seen. We hail not Ia wait long, for he
soon appeared walking leisuraly to the left
OF H., with the intention Of escaping by
the talle-land above. III, hit him hard
through the body with shell, this made
him quicken his pace and he was going to
disappont us by dying out of sight. when
dropped him with "a No. II spherical hul-
! lot. lie gave us no more trouble. The
people were excited with joy, when they
saw their terrible enemy dead, and on eN-
! animation we found the scar across hi,
| face which the villager had dealt when the
boy was rescued. He was an ordinary
sized tiger, not very large, with a perfect
shining coat. so that tho popular notion n
a :rrsn-entinS being many would seem to
be a fal!ac~. .r,--.rr.---~
| A gross exaggeration always exists ~ r
the number OF persou, killed i'm cascs liks
this. scnt n trustworthy non-ccnms.i"r
| ed officer to collect the names ofthe suffer
| ers. t.."sf FL" " r''''s
The result OF the inquiry Was, that cigh
ty-eight .iieTl and woman had been killed
and seven others wounded bv this brute
Most of them were killed in the daytime
women while pickingg gum and wild frnit-
men grazing cattle (he never touched tn
cattle, but made for the spot indicted b.
the Shepherds voice y some while at tn
plow travellers and many at night. Will
caring for their fields on platforms raise'
on poles, All these people were killed il
n country very thinly populated, and thor
must be other victims whose names hav
not got Twenty villages had suffer
ed, some Of which had been deserted, hu
1t was gratifying to see the people arrang
ing to reoecupy these latter and the plo'
now furrows where, for the last thre
& years, no man dared walk in the day.
= We were out three weeks, and, combT
! ing business with pleasure, killed seve
tigers. one lion. = panther, and four bear
For large game shooting. am greatly
favor ofthe bullet over the shell. 40
want large surface to strike with, an
I spherical ball makes the heart sick.-M
in London FIELD. - .ulEsz 70 1a.aft (
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's WADE HAMPToS.--Ths noted rebel on
=. declared ho would never surrender, AZ
when he did "come down." he swore
p would not ask for pardon, but would I'd
= first" Th. wns in the good old fasho