The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-30
EATING A WOMAN.

For more than a year past a man
eating tigress has been the terror and
scourge of a email tract ofhill country
IN Western Carnival, which looks
down across the Gauges upon the ss-
cred shrine of Rikhikesh. From first
TO last she is said to have killed be-
tween fifty to sixty human beings. A
considerably higher estimate, indeed,
Is current in the neighborhood. Last
year she became proclaimed offender
and a reward of 400 rupees was set
upon her head. So widely Infamous
did she become that it is somewhat
surprising she did not obtain more at.
tention from the sporting manhood OF
our cantonments, particularly when
1t is considered that her haunts we're
within two marches of 80 well. known
and accessible a place as HurdEsr.
Such attempts, however, as were msds
to oiTcumvent her, whether on the
part of forest hunters and others, OF
natives, invariably failed. Her Wari-
ness and activity seemed to be alto
gether extraordinary. From some
spot on the hillside she would watch
a group at work in the fields, and
regularly stalk them by careful and
circuitous approaches: then, dashing
in among them, she would
PICK OFF HEB VICTIM.
And few seconds be down the sideof
one hill and under cover up another
almost before bis companions had
time to look around. The sound of
bamboo-cutting was so we'll known to
attire ct her that that industry for the
time entirely ceased within her beat.
Of course occasional failures are re-
corded against her; one plucky fellow
cudgelled her of the friend she seized
By his side with lathi; and in an
other instance she abandoned her
prey owing to the lucky circumstances
Of mouthful of the bamboo bundle
on his back failing to please her taste.
But these we're rare exceptions 10 the
monotonous tale of slaughter. One
of the very last cases was a particu-
lsrly painful enc. A peasants wife
objected to go to work in the fields, or
rather cultivated terraces, pleading
her fear of this beast; the,husbsnd
forced or persuaded her to go, promis-
ing to accompany her and stay near
while she worked. She was carried
of before his eyes. People on the
lookout for this tigress With firearms
could never find her; cattle she never
killed; to elephants her haunts we're
inaccessible, and it seemed clear that
if she were ever destroyed it would be
of
THE CORPSE OF A HUMAN BEING,
Or the carcass of a langur, the only
animal besides man on which she was
known to prey. And so it turned cut.
About fortnight ago the Senior As
sistant Commissioner of Carnival ob-
tanned the services of a dozen Goork-
has from the regiment quartered at
Dehra; these plucky little men had
only been a day or two across the river,
when, on the eth inst, the tigress
killed again snethsr woman. They
started for the spot in the afternoon,
four OF them going along the hillside
in advance, while the rest of the
party kept along the nulIah; the IL
gress, startled by the latter, broke In
front of the former, and luckily having.
her back broken by the first volley Of
the shot fred at her suceumbed
without struggle. Not only was the
tigress apparently killed of the body
but some of the victims fingers were
found in her stomach.