New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-11-06
FROM OUR FOREIGN FILES.
A HUNTER SHOT BY A DEER
prom TIE Lcndcn Telegraph, Oct u.

Devoted as the English race is to field sports, aud
general as the P%ou 81 ate es sa' c
essing ordinary enough IN character forgettng ob'i
Kin either themselves or Some OF their companions
nothing be said OF such disasters except that prudent sports
that tbose persons Themselves should Try TO remember that
WHO lets any eye that of his quarry down his loaded bar
iamy has befalen frsrate and wetried forester which s
really the extraordinary ever told IN the annals
lie ride There are curious by the records Of
Good and field Every book OF husting aud shooting con
%ns some @ @ sSs tho, S Some thai are noe
believed the less true FOR travellers and hunters 90
OF narrSg al they because truth often less prob
able than fiction, go
in full charge cd TO the ground and slain BY peb-
bic thrown the hand Yet that on record And IN TIC
Hubert We find the oldest OF tales II is Harris We believe,
who narraes his Highlands Of Ethiopia That ayng an
teOpe pushed into the pusuer the hunting which was
drawn 10 .lay it, welInigh graLochhs the man Instead OF
suffering that process itself something Of .s same s
has occurred in Mar Forest IL is not very uncommon log
eT 70 MI tns sn Ss old onS S n bou he rTt with
horn OF hart brings thee to thy grave bai VINO ever hsad
10 haven't such an incident a volume Of sport The mighty
hunter who got the suooriqae Of GORDON Cumming oo.
really happened this year the Grampians right good
buried among the mountains last edneSy VIC
was shot through the heart by bullet ed by stag OF vbeh
he had made sure which itself al the point Of death
The unlGcky sportsman was named eorge Cslahaih snS
Mr. Powel orestes Braemar When out with his muster
and some Others on the OF Caintou hne stag was
sakod and surrounded BY the party Crqhart was sent 10
Keep the animal escaping by the head OF the gen and
firing At n he wounded again Another forester then joined
him and the followed the stag out OF the main pass into
very deep glen with broken ground and preeous sides ana
below. The deer badly hurt that tho
men came up with him. and Urquhar tried 10 drive him down
with the butt the rife before dealing the finishing blow
In despar and the stag ashed out and striking the
hammers the piece knocked of and brought the oher
down on the cap charge exploded and drove tho
bullet through the foresters body He stood for mo-
ment aud then said quietly II shot and iel into the
arms of his companion Grant who laid him down and tired to
stop the bleeding Seeing the poor fellow so much hurt
Grant FASTENED up the glen and found his master with tho
others wondering had become of the two On hearing
the melancholy news Powell and his friends Immediately
went down to UrquhaI while his comrade the hills
10 shieng eight miles Off fur further assistance
and thence miles further lot dostos
But the forester was fatally hit the stag winch ha
dropped dead little below and although he could @ low
the accident happened when his master ist came up ana
bye he grew weaker and weaker and died as the Ng De-
gan 10 fall At about o'clock the men came back and pac
Ing the body ON pony they carried u out OF inc pass
But by this time darkness so dense thai M 'he wuhess
and desOaOn the mOuFnnl party utterly lost their way Az
midnight tey were obliged 10 lay the corpse on the heather
and IN down 10 wait morning but Just on stopping thy
Jaw tbe FIRE 10 the Smelling 20 which Uquhat had hrt gons
ana then the anthorns the sent out 70 look Tor hetn
G AZ st they cot shelter The doctors had also but tho
was long past their hepcad and cold like Als
SLAYER he antered king Of the hills which lay IN tho Wild
mountain burn had positively shot the forester VIA
his own rife 10 dying agony aveRging the death OF many
" heart Of grease, and Its own fate beside