The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-21
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Horrible Fate OF u Hindoo Giri.
From the calcutta sporting Msgazins.I =,
There lived in Calcutta lovely girl
of IL, who was engaged to man she
was much attached to her father, how
ever, did not approve OF the match,
and was anxious that she should marry
another man, who had proposed to her
some time before. This second lover,
backed up by the father, was most per
sistent in his attentions, and ultimately
hoped to win the girl, who, on her part,
disliked him intensely, aud declared
she would marry the man she was
engaged to, and no one else. All of
asudden the girl disappeared, and, though
every search was made, no intelligence
could be gained of her, nor was there
any apparent reason for her mysterious
absence. Suspicion fell on both her
lovers, especially on the one whose suit
she had rejected, for it was well known
he was highly incensed against her for
her indifference toward him. They We're
both arrested and imprisoned, albeit
they declared their innocence, and also
their sorrow and establishment at her
disappearance. 1t was ascertained that
she was last seen alive going to the
"tank" with her pitcher to draw
water, and that she had never been seen
since. On this it was decided to have
the tank dragged, which was accordingly
done. The first time they found moth
ing; however, they tried again. On this
occasion they felt something very heavy
in the net presently they saw
the huge head of an alligator,
I'll kra 1n.,
splash which broke the net and allowed
the animal to escape. They immediate
ly commenced making snother net OF ex-
ira strength, and one not likely to be
broken by the alligator. When it was
finished they dragged the tank, and this
time they did so most thoroughly, but
to their amazement nothing of the ALI
gator was seen. "Where can it be2"
they exclaimed; "surely we were not de-
ceived; we all saw it and yet if ii was
in that tank we must have caught it. ="
Some of them proposed that they should
drag the tank from the opposite side.
This they did, and their efforts were
crowned with success, for they captured
the alligator and brought him safe to
land. He was of monstrous size, and a
most ferocious monster. Inside of him
they found no end of gold and silver
bankles and native ornaments; some OF
them were recognized by the bereaved
father as belonging to his poor daughter,
for they were the same as she wore on
the evening she was last seen walking
toward the tank. The grief of her friends
on this terrible discovery can be better
imagined than described. She must have
put down her pitcher into the water.
quite unconscious OF danger, when she
was seized by the monster and in mo-
ment dragged down. Not soul knew
the existence of the alligator in the tank.
1t was the only one there, and had a
habit of hiding under the shelving of
rock on one side of the tank. This ac-
counts for it's not being captured when
the tank was dragged on so many occa-
sions. How this monster got into that
tank and where it came from is ques-
ton for naturalists alone to answer.
have heard, though l cannot vouch for
the truth, that alligators have been
known to travel great distances at night.
This animal must have walked straight
through the populous city OF Calcutta to
the tank unobserved.